Reflections of an American Harpsichordist Unpublished Memoirs, Essays, and Lectures of Ralph Kirkpatrick
8 ❧ introduction The lectures, and perhaps several essays, were transcripts of tapes or presenta- tions. Some had been revised f ...
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Chapter One Memoirs, 1933–77 My duties in Salzburg at the Mozarteum were much lighter than I chose to make them. I think I was t ...
12 ❧ chapter one Moravia, Mimi Pecci-Blunt, Francis Poulenc, Leon Barzin, John McCullough, Eugene Ormandy, Yella Pessl, Greta Kr ...
memoirs, 1933–77 ❧ 13 “Schwärmerei,”^2 [was] already to be seen in the pseudo-heroic leading tenors of Kleist’s Prinz von Hombur ...
14 ❧ chapter one one thing well, I have focused most of my work on solo keyboard music. But now I am anxious to study texts and ...
memoirs, 1933–77 ❧ 15 playing and with the Italian language. I had carried forward my bibliographi- cal research, and by the end ...
16 ❧ chapter one and seldom can plan more than two or three months ahead,”—continued to be true for a number of years. But long ...
memoirs, 1933–77 ❧ 17 In the spring of 1938 I was put in touch with the authorities of Colonial Williamsburg, Inc. Some elementa ...
18 ❧ chapter one nor have I the actor’s talent nor the chutzpah to impersonate Bach or Mozart. Only as an anonymous continuo pla ...
memoirs, 1933–77 ❧ 19 performing, but also for the privileges of access to its libraries and, above all, because it offered me a ...
20 ❧ chapter one her for nearly always refusing to use ready-made musical scores as carpets on which to dance. Doris Humphrey wa ...
memoirs, 1933–77 ❧ 21 coming off and what was not. Her own performances, heard through the haze of cigarette smoke in nightclubs ...
22 ❧ chapter one throughout the last half, I hastily fi gured it on the train between New York and Boston. The contrast of orche ...
memoirs, 1933–77 ❧ 23 primarily concerned with furthering their own interests, with getting their music played, or getting chanc ...
24 ❧ chapter one On fi rst arriving in Frankfurt at night I was puzzled by the curiously sinister character of the crowds millin ...
memoirs, 1933–77 ❧ 25 which turned out to be a confi scated eighteenth-century country palace. I heard the captain arguing vigor ...
26 ❧ chapter one a conductor who has studied in Leipzig in Straube’s time, I know that I can expect a turgid performance in whic ...
memoirs, 1933–77 ❧ 27 fi nally [we land at] the airport at Madrid. Painful crassness of the Ameri- can Airlines employees, bette ...
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