Sylvia Marlowe on PLEYEL HARPSICHORD Boogie Woogie Harry James AFRS Show Garrard 301 

Recorded on the great Garrard 301 Turntable: Armed Forces Radio Service Record: Harry James presents famous harpsichordist Sylvia Marlowe playing the Boogie Woogie on her PLEYEL HARPSICHORD
Sylvia Marlowe (Harpsichord)

Born: September 26, 1908 - New York, NY, USA
Died: December 11, 1981 - New York, NY, USA

Sylvia Marlowe was, along with Wanda Landowska, largely responsible for bringing the harpsichord to the attention of American audiences. The harpsichord was for her, also liberated, modern, and urban. 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. 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 was also a dynamic pioneer of twentieth-century repertory for the harpsichord and by choice a liberated, modern, urban woman.
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