For some 200 years, the harpsichord was king. The Baroque composers J.S. Bach, George Frideric Handel and Domenico Scarlatti all wrote sonatas, suites and solo works for the instrument, a ...
Bach and the Bee Gees are not often mentioned in the same sentence, much less played on the same instrument -- especially one with such strong early-music associations as the harpsichord. But ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Kenneth Slowik, curator of Musical Instrument Collection at National Museum of American History and artistic director of the Smithsonian Chamber ...
John Phillips is an imposing giant of a man -- a master craftsman and amateur musician -- with an unusual creative streak. He makes harpsichords modeled on French, Flemish and Italian instruments from ...
MORTON Gould’s parents realised their young son was different the day he almost blew up their home with gunpowder. It wasn’t that the little boy was trying to destroy the family home in Edinburgh’s ...