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<font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br>Everyone who has read any of the Gould biographies will remember that GG was introduced to Joseph Stephens by Peter Ostwald and that they were</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">quite close for some seventeen years. Stephens even took part in a radio "debate" of some sort with Gould on the subject of the piano concerto.</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">Joe Stephens was a harpsichordist and organist as well as Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. The following links tell an interesting story but first a little</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"> </font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">background music from Madame Jambor (hit the "</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><u>show more</u></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">" arrow at this youtube site for Dr. Stephens' short essay):</font><br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX3_IEybveY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX3_IEybveY</a> <br><br><br><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">Someone at The Baltimore Sun hears of a good story:</font><br><br><a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-10-17/features/1993290242_1_jambor-stephens-pianist">http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-10-17/features/1993290242_1_jambor-stephens-pianist</a><br><br><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">Then 6 months later someone at the LA Times decides to cover the story too but LA being "a Company town" the emphasis is on Claude Rains (Raines) </font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">and Bette Davis:</font><br><br><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1994-03-27/news/mn-39038_1_agi-jambor">http://articles.latimes.com/1994-03-27/news/mn-39038_1_agi-jambor</a> <br><br><br><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">Had the Jambor/Rains marriage lasted just a little bit longer, Agi would have been at those recording sessions of 'Enoch Arden' with Rains and Gould</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">in 1961 - an interesting 'near miss' of history to reflect upon.</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">Agi Jambor's obituary:</font><br><br><a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1997-02-09/news/1997040092_1_jambor-albert-einstein-playing-mozart">http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1997-02-09/news/1997040092_1_jambor-albert-einstein-playing-mozart</a><br><br><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">Dr. Joseph Stephens' obituary:</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><br><a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2008-06-03/news/0806020200_1_harpsichord-player-joseph-stephens-johns-hopkins">http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2008-06-03/news/0806020200_1_harpsichord-player-joseph-stephens-johns-hopkins</a> <br><br><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">Some 30 of Agi Jambor's Capitol Records recordings from the 1950's are playlisted at:</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/stephenjoeagi#p/c/18777C26A2447A99/0/TUMCAlud2-w">http://www.youtube.com/user/stephenjoeagi#p/c/18777C26A2447A99/0/TUMCAlud2-w</a><br><br><br><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">Jambor's Bach Toccatas and Partitas are quite extraordinary. I haven't yet listened to the entire playlist.<br><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">Mary</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"> </font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <br>
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