Reflections of an American Harpsichordist Unpublished Memoirs, Essays, and Lectures of Ralph Kirkpatrick
28 ❧ chapter one and triple-crossing themselves in an excess of care and devotion. And, fi nally, the old woman kissing the bloo ...
memoirs, 1933–77 ❧ 29 During the Spanish Civil War, I found it diffi cult to take sides, but on the afternoon of that fi rst wal ...
30 ❧ chapter one with Capri in the distance, I could pick ripe fi gs, and when we descended to swim we found the company of a va ...
memoirs, 1933–77 ❧ 31 airports in the world. As it was the Anno Santo,^14 we often stopped our bicy- cles in front of S. Pietro ...
32 ❧ chapter one would probably take me a large part of the summer. Meanwhile, I had devel- oped notions of building on my prope ...
memoirs, 1933–77 ❧ 33 when it became impossible to go on, would sleep for three hours, resuming work at the summons of an alarm ...
34 ❧ chapter one confi rmed my feeling that it is infi nitely more gratifying to play Scarlatti’s music than to write about it. ...
memoirs, 1933–77 ❧ 35 as it is by pretentions based on that dried-up Renaissance of three hundred years ago. The concert in Flor ...
36 ❧ chapter one in Egypt, the Sudan, Kenya, and Zanzibar before taking up my fi rst duties in Johannesburg. I give here excerpt ...
memoirs, 1933–77 ❧ 37 fantasies that would doubtless fade on further experience. I have, however, gathered cloves and peeled off ...
38 ❧ chapter one cuss and dispute their ideas. They present what looks to us like a curious mixture of covered-wagon and Bible-b ...
memoirs, 1933–77 ❧ 39 I had advanced with my suggestion that she might like to leave, the audience burst into applause. This was ...
40 ❧ chapter one too rarely have access, and of the network of conceptual prejudice that we have substituted for superstitions. ...
memoirs, 1933–77 ❧ 41 of the summer I had been saturated in Austrian and Bavarian Baroque [and] in French Romanesque from Poitou ...
42 ❧ chapter one afforded me an opportunity to depart from the prevailing character of my recital programs. I have never liked t ...
memoirs, 1933–77 ❧ 43 Ushered into a drawing room in blond Art Deco style of the 1930s with a splendid Rubens over the fi replac ...
44 ❧ chapter one prepared little recitals which I played for the intimate circle of friends and guests and which I have no inten ...
memoirs, 1933–77 ❧ 45 In the early 1960s, I had developed glaucoma, and the combination of this with the chronic iritis of some ...
46 ❧ chapter one But as I had earlier stood being photographed on the balcony of La Fenice with a volume of the Scarlatti facsim ...
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