The acclaimed Iranian-American musician is rekindling enthusiasm for an often derided instrument – and he’s not done yet Mahan Esfahani was nine when he first heard a harpsichord. He and his parents ...

Byron Will smoothes a corner in a harpsichord he's building. A warmer in foreground contains animal skin glue that holds some pieces of the instrument together. (Janet Goetze) has been making ...

On my dining table there are a few random scraps of homework for a lesson that never happened. The scraps include sheets of music paper on which I wrote out the first scene of the first act of ...

Working in his studio, Kevin Fryer listens to CDs of lute and harpsichord music, letting his thoughts sail away to the Dutch masters and places like Antwerp in the 17th century. In a second-story ...

"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 ...

The sounds of the 18 th century filled the Wren Chapel last week as a group of graduate students from Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance joined with William & Mary students for a ...

(06-28) 15:00 PDT BERKELEY-- In his large, airy studio in West Berkeley, John Phillips and assistant Janine Johnson build harpsichords. They do all the work: design and concept, milling, joining and ...

In 1966 I began a decade-plus stint working for the Aspen Music Festival. I had many duties, and one of the more interesting was moving instruments. Mostly I moved percussion instruments, pianos, ...