As an undergraduate at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, Mr. Jacobs double-majored in organ and harpsichord.
There's even a harpsichord solo which has all the thrills, theatrics and drama of a massive electric-guitar shred-fest.
It did not mean playing a harpsichord strung with modern steel, or fussy ornamentation as a piece was played.
That was a fact Gould invoked as giving him license to play the Goldberg Variations originally written for double-manual harpsichord on the piano.
Astronomy-based artwork and collectibles decorate the instrument room, which includes a 19th-century piano and a harpsichord that was built by his father.
Bach scored his third Brandenburg for groups of divided strings and harpsichord.
He moved on to driving taxis, writing and studying harpsichord at Julliard.
The record finds the band sampling a broader range of sounds, including a mandolin and a harpsichord, but rock is still its metier.
So to balance this, I took up the harpsichord primarily for the chance to collaborate with other musicians by playing continuo in ensembles.
Klein also finds a way to add modernist composer Gyorgy Ligeti's "Hungarian Rock, " a chaconne composed for harpsichord players who like to shred on a Baroque-era instrument.
For Theofanidis, composing for the harpsichord was something completely new.
The splendid 25-member ensemble, with Mr. Bicket leading from the harpsichord, brought pungent clarity and rhythmic swing to this 1720 score, a classic Handel cornucopia of varying moods and characters.
The harpsichord, a table-size Renaissance favorite, was cleverly reengineered as a boxlike model called a virginal (in tribute to Queen Elizabeth I) that one person could fold up and carry.
Backlit in gloomy purple and red, and accompanied by strings, flute, percussion and a harpsichord, a trio slipped into each other's roles in an allegorical depiction of how all are victims and perpetrators.
Groups of putti grace the case of the 1635 Ruckers: A core sample of its paint indicated that this is its fifth paint job harpsichord owners would redecorate their instruments to keep up with the latest fashions.
On a recent Saturday morning in Karen and Peter Flint's spacious barn in the Brandywine Valley, nine harpsichord students and assorted auditors were listening intently as harpsichord virtuoso Arthur Haas, a professor at SUNY Stony Brook, explained the subtleties inherent in performing the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764).
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