Sylvia Marlowe was a classically-trained harpsichordist who played from time to time on the revolving stage in the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center and on the radio program "Lavender and Old Lace." She also inspired the harpsichordist character in Francis Steegmuller's 1949 novel Blue Harpsichord.
Francis Steegmuller, Blue Harpsichord , 1949
Her first jazz harpsichord recordings appeared on her album From Bach to Boogie Woogie (General Records, c. 1940). "18th Century Barrehlhouse" was part of a series of fox trots, "New Portraits of Old Masters," which she recorded in 1947 on Decca & Brunswick, and is an arrangement of J.P. Rameau's "Tambourine" from his Suite in e minor.