The harpsichord is the Rolls Royce of keyboards. Dating the late middle ages, it was a status symbol of any aristocratic family during the Renaissance, and by the 1600s harpsichords were being built ...

WASHINGTON — Shortly after retiring from his role as conservator and curator of musical instruments at Colonial Williamsburg, John Watson received an interesting request from the folks at Mount Vernon ...

This is the fourth in a series of posts about appreciating classical music. Catch up on the first three parts of the series here, here and here. Though its name sounds archaic, the harpsichord is a ...

Harpsichordist Jory Vinikour's recording "20th Century harpsichord concertos" (Cedille Records). You might think the harpsichord is a mere historic novelty, an outdated baroque cousin of the piano and ...

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 ...

Over the years, New London harpsichord maker Jacob Kaeser has custom-built instruments that were presented as “rather lavish Christmas gifts” worth $20,000 or more. Reflecting hundreds of hours of ...

William Dowd, 86, who revived the 17th-century craft of harpsichord making, building hundreds of historically authentic instruments now used around the world, died of complications from an embolism ...

Wearing shorts, flip-flops and with reading glasses perched on the end of his nose, Rob Brooke was in his garage this week on 18th Avenue West, surrounded by power tools, the smell of wood and his two ...

The audience was small. The slight keyboard instrument painted green on the stage wasn’t imposing. Beyond the first few rows of Walt Disney Concert Hall Wednesday, the delicate sound it made was faint ...

Harpsichord music will sound at the State Philharmonic Hall. Khurshid Abdullayeva. Nemat Tanriverdiyev (trombone), Mammad Rajabli (clarinet), Nigar Mammadova (organ) will please the audience with ...

"The harpsichord is an easy target, isn't it?" Those are the fighting words of Mahan Esfahani, a good-humored harpsichordist who is a proud defender of his instrument. Esfahani sat down to talk with ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...