Ralph Kirkpatrick : letters of the American harpsichordist and scholar
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Ralph Kirkpatrick : letters of the American harpsichordist and scholar
(Eastman studies in music, [v. 117])
University of Rochester Press, 2014
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Note
Publications by and about Ralph Kirkpatrick: p. [163]-171
Discography: p. [173]-175
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection of letters to and from the eminent harpsichordist, scholar, and early-music pioneer Ralph Kirkpatrick provides a portrait of the musician from the beginning of his career in Paris in the 1930s to its end in the early 1980s.
This collection of letters to and from the eminent harpsichordist, scholar, and early-music pioneer Ralph Kirkpatrick provides a portrait of the musician from the beginning of his career in Paris in the 1930s to its end in the early 1980s, offering new insights into his work and scholarship. The volume contains letters from Europe to his family as well as correspondence with harpsichord makers, performers, and composers, including Nadia Boulanger, Alexander Schneider, John Kirkpatrick, Elliott Carter, Henry Cowell, John Challis, Kenneth Gilbert, Serge Koussevitzky, and Vincent Persichetti. In addition, two former students of Kirkpatrick, the guitarist Eliot Fisk and the harpsichordist Mark Kroll, write about their experiences studying with Kirkpatrick in a foreword and an afterword. The volume also includes a bibliography of publications by and about the musician, as well as a discography.
MeredithKirkpatrick is a librarian and bibliographer at Boston University and is the niece of Ralph Kirkpatrick.
Table of Contents
Foreword: "The Glowing of Such Fire" -- A Tribute to Ralph Kirkpatrick - Eliot Fisk
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Selected Letters to Family
Nadia Boulanger
Alexander Mackay-Smith
Wanda Landowska
John Challis
Serge Koussevitzky
Oliver Strunk
Roger Sessions
Harold Spivacke
Steinway & Sons
New York Times
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
John Kirkpatrick
Alexander Schneider
Otto Luening
Donald Boalch
John Hamilton
Thornton Wilder
Lincoln Kirstein
Arthur Mendel
Edward Steuremann
Frank Martin
Olin Downes
Albert Fuller
Elliott Carter
Quincy Porter
Vincent Persichetti
Henry Cowell
Mel Powell
Bengt Hambraeus
Alec Hodson
Paul Fromm
Wolfgang Zuckermann
Kenneth Gilbert
Mr. and Mrs. George Young
Colin Tilney
Oliver Daniel
Eliot Fisk
Wilton Dillon
William Dowd
Meredith Kirkpatrick
Afterword: Lessons with Kirkpatrick - Mark Kroll
Appendix A: Publications by and about Ralph Kirkpatrick
Appendix B: Ralph Kirkpatrick Discography
Index
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