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Europe's midsummer sun shone on a thriving crop of music festivals last week. Highlights: a new Wagner production, a brilliant new staging of Mozart's Magic Flute and an American harpsichordist playing Bach.
Ansbach's Bach. The eighth annual Bach Week at Ansbach, Germany, brought a personal triumph to Manhattan Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick, 44. Facing a firm Teutonic conviction that only Germans can play Bach properly, Kirkpatrick made a bold decision. While he was playing his morning performance, word came that Guitarist Andres Segovia was sick and could not fill his engagement that evening. Kirkpatrick agreed...
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