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SYLVIA MARLOWE A HARPSICHORD RECITAL GOLD LABEL DECCA Jaxsprats Art Gallery http://stores.ebay.com/Jaxsprats-Unique-Collectibles Our store specializes in rare antiques, fine art, and collectibles at deep discounted prices. We strive to provide you the finest collectibles from around the globe. Our inventory consists of hard to find works of art from Europe, South American, USA, Caribbean, African artists and craftsman. Quality Native American Indian Art; Impressionists, Modern Contemporary Paintings, Depression Glass, Fine China Pottery, Decorative Plates, along with our vintage catalog of African American, Sports, and Entertainment Memorabilia. We welcome you to browse through our large collection of quality merchandise. HUGE RECESSION PROOF BLOW OUT SALE for our Quality Paintings, Prints, Posters and Exclusive African, Latin/ Hispanic, Native American Paintings, Hand Crafted Arts, Ceramic, Pottery items. Everything In our Native American Arts, African Art/ Black Memorabila, Entertainment Memorabilia, Latin American/ Hispanic, and Paintings Posters, Print Categories are beings offered as our: FREE SHIPPING PROVIDED WITHIN THE USA ONLY, I WILL SHIP WORLDWIDE AT BUYERS EXPENSE UP FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION IS AN ORIGINAL HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE 1959 SYLVIA MARLOWE "A Harpsichord Recital" DECCA RECORDS (GOLD LABEL SERIES) "ON THE BACK OF THE ALBUM COVER READS A STICKER THAT STATES IN RED WITH WHITE LETTERING "SAMPLE COPY" - Vivaldi-Bach: Concerto in D major; Scarlatti: Eight Sonatas; Couperin: Pavanne and Chaconne; Byrd: The Bells; Sylvia Marlowe, Harpsichord. STEREO Decca Gold Label DL 710113. The album cover shows wear due to age and storage. The vinyl is clean and is graded "M-". All Grading is visual as i am not an professional expert on grading records, all records have been played and posted without any audible scratches that diminishes the quality unless it has been noted in the item description. - Grading is as follows: NEW: Still factory sealed…brand new product M-: Mint minus…used product in near new condition EX: Excellent…used product with minor flaws not affecting play VG: Very Good…used product with some damage possibly audible G: Good…used product that will play, but not with passable quality BUY IT NOW AT OUR DISCOUNTED PRICE OF $49.99 Sylvia Marlowe (Harpsichord) Born: September 26, 1908 - New York, NY, USA Died: December 11, 1981 - New York, NY, USA The American harpsichordist, Sylvia Marlowe (real name: Sapira), studied the piano and organ at school and university. She continued her musical education at the École Normale de Musique in Paris, studying the piano and organ, and composition with Nadia Boulanger. It was there that she first heard Wanda Landowska, whose harpsichord playing impressed her deeply, although she did not study with her until years later. On returning to the USA, Sylvia Marlowe received a National Music Award to perform Bach's "48" Preludes Fugues on the piano in a series of radio broadcasts. Gradually she gave up the piano in favour of the harpsichord. For some years following she specialised in broadcasting for the radio, presenting renaissance and Baroque harpsichord and chamber works, as well as a wide range of contemporary music, including jazz. Although her primary devotion was to the Baroque style of composition, she adventurously espoused the cause of popular American music. She was a member of the pop group called Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street and even performed in night-clubs, ostentatiously proclaiming her belief in music as an art of flux. In 19481 (or 19532), Sylvia Marlowe was appointed Professor of Harpsichord at the Mannes College of Music in New York. One of her many pupils there was the well-known American harpsichordist Kenneth Cooper (from 1960 to 1963), who first was to remain a close friend of hers until her death. In 1957 she founded the Harpsichord Music Society, Inc. to promote new works for the harpsichord and award scholarships for the advanced study of the harpsichord and its literature. This society commissioned works by Elliott Carter, Ned Rorem, Vittorio Rieti, Henri Sauguet, and others. In 1948, Sylvia Marlowe married Leonid Berman, the son of a Russian banker and himself a neo-romantic painter, who was already famous in Europe, and who brought to the marriage his own extensive friendship among Russian émigrés and European artists. Their marriage was a great success and they remained very close up to Berman's death in 1976, from which Sylvia never entirely recovered. Among the people who visited them regularly at their apartment in New York' were W. H. Auden, Harold Rosenberg, Lionel Trilling, and composers Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, Alan Hovhanes and Vittorio Rieti, all of whom wrote compositions for the harpsichord. In 1955 she was to become the first harpsichordist ever to make a concert tour of the Far East and Southeast, a tour she did for the State Department's International Cultural Relations Program. Sylvia Marlowe was, along with Wanda Landowska, largely responsible for bringing the harpsichord to the attention of American audiences. Not content with making it popular for the music of J.S. Bach and other Baroque composers, she had supreme confidence in the harpsichord's capability to respond to the demands of contemporary music, encouraging its use in modern compositions by sponsoring new harpsichord works. The harpsichord was for her, also liberated, modern, and urban, and although she loved her summers in the quiet of the country, like Georg Frideric Handel, she regarded summers as preparations for winters. She was concerned with giving a "contemporary identity to the harpsichord which has for a long time been associated with the music of the past." She always craved a lively, beautiful harpsichord sound and a wide, sensuous palette of colours. Mannes College President Charles Kaufman described Marlowe's personality as "peppery" and "not altogether content" with the repertory, herself, or anything else. The lack of contentment was a fiery force driving her from one project to the next, always erasing the past. According to historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., she blended "twentieth-century urgency with eighteenth-century elegance". The lady who loved society, spoke French, was the "sparkling centre of her salon on East 60th Street," and wished only to be allowed to pursue her beautiful work, was also a dynamic pioneer of twentieth-century repertory for the harpsichord and by choice a liberated, modern, urban woman. Sylvia Marlowe's recording career, which stretched almost four decades, had special meaning to her, because she loved working in the recording studio and performed there at her best. Her recorded legacy represents her work well and includes some of the finest of all harpsichord discs. Among them are her authoritative performances of some of the works she commissioned. Just after the war, she began by recording almost five dozen 78-rpm sides, including Scarlatti, François Couperin, and Rameau, Purcell's Eight Suites, and a rare collection called "The Evolution of Piano Music". After 78rpm gave way to LP's, she made altogether some 34 recordings, many of them for the major record companies, including Columbia, MGM, The Haydn Society, Westminster, Capitol and particularly, Decca, her recorded repertoire reflecting, like her concert programs, a lively mix of Baroque and contemporary. We accept Mastercard, Visa, American Express, Discover, and PayPal. All postage is calculated at cost which also includes packaging and handling fees which make our standard low cost shipping rates more appealing to our by buyers. Items will be shipped via FedEX or USPS Priority Mail service with Delivery confirmation, unless otherwise stated in the listing. If you buy more than one item we combine shipping give a $1.00 discount on shipping for each additional item purchased within (7) days of the first initial purchase. Please allow 3-5 business days for delivery once item has been paid for through paypal. 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