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Hussein Dots Landscape with Mosques; U.S. Suspects Sites Are Hiding Bioweapons.
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By E.A. Torriero, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 10--BAGHDAD -- Rising from the craters and dust of the bombed-out downtown airport is the enormous shell of what someday is to become one of the grandest mosques in Arabia, named after none other than Saddam Hussein.
Less than a mile away, on land where chic Iraqis once bet on horse races, the towers and gilded dome of another huge Muslim place of worship head toward completion.
Across Iraq, and under the watchful surveillance of U.S. satellites, Hussein's government ...
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Harpsichords in Tune With the Times
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...such strong early-music associations as the harpsichord. But harpsichord enthusiasts who gathered this week in Washington...Gees' "Stayin' Alive." It's unconventional harpsichord fare, perhaps, although Angle, 62, says that...
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Harpsichord and Clavichord Music of the Twentieth Century.
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...almost every imaginable combination such as solo harpsichord, harpsichord with MIDI, multiple keyboards (works utilizing 2-6 harpsichords), and miscellaneous instruments and harpsichord (including such exotic instruments as mandolin...
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The Harpsichord and Its Repertoire: Proceedings of the International Harpsichord Symposium, Utrecht 1990.
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...strongly influenced tastes in harpsichord building, buying, and playing...eight-foot sound in Italian harpsichords (as opposed to a combination...and in denigrating German harpsichords (whose builders allegedly...organ rather than a true harpsichord sonority)--some will...
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Modern Harpsichord Music: A Discography.
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...many others as "anonymous harpsichord." Second, simply naming...no clue as to whether the harpsichord is modern or historic. How...readers would know that the harpsichords built by Willard Martin...performances of some 600 harpsichord works seems impressive...
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William Dowd, 86; Crafted Harpsichords The Old-Fashioned Way
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...this century in harpsichord making." Mr...in 1988, his harpsichords were in 26 countries...History. Dowd harpsichords are probably in...references say. A harpsichord he built on commission...he worked on a harpsichord catalogue for...food as he was in harpsichords, Mr. Dowd was...
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A History of the Harpsichord.(Early Music)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...acoustics of the harpsichord (connected with Zuckermann Harpsichords International...centuries of harpsichord making, four...possible number of harpsichords made in areas...history of the harpsichord receives a commendably...
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'Chord Values; A Lincoln harpsichord builder keys in on an old idea
Newspaper article from: Seven Days
; ...piano hammers, a harpsichord plucks. Pianos...on the string. Harpsichords call for a light...piano eclipsed the harpsichord in the early 1800s...popularity -- harpsichords seized from the...that of a true harpsichord. It wasn't...historically derived harpsichords were built. Hicks...
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GOING FOR BAROQUE; DENTIST TO PERFORM WITH ORCHESTRA ON HARPSICHORD HE BUILT.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
; ...Dowd was a master harpsichord maker; his instruments...said Donahue. Harpsichords predate the piano...instruments, but as harpsichord keys are played...people (building harpsichords) is that they don...University. He loves the harpsichord's bright, clean...
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A champion of contemporary harpsichord
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...repertoire. "I think it is the harpsichord's characteristic clarity...explains Kroll. "But only good harpsichord composers, aware of the...limitation, write playable harpsichord pieces. The good composers...perform pieces for one and two harpsichords by Francois Couperin, Domenico...
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Heavenly harpsichord in the spotlight at Saturday concert
Newspaper article from: Yakima Herald-Republic
; ...NOWACKI YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC The harpsichord isn't something John Cozza plays a...beautiful William de Blaise double manual harpsichord has sat in his mother's Yakima living...sound than an instrument copy, the harpsichord works well with a modern chamber orchestra...
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