Reflections of an American Harpsichordist Unpublished Memoirs, Essays, and Lectures of Ralph Kirkpatrick
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Chapter Two On Performing I am not sure to what extent I was really cut out to be a performer. My tenden- cies toward self-relia ...
50 ❧ chapter two Of course, there were long struggles for achieving a mastery of the neces- sary techniques. Even more important ...
on performing ❧ 51 except to my vanity? What good does it do to rest, or not to rest, to eat or not to eat beforehand, to practi ...
52 ❧ chapter two actual performance seem like child’s play. Airplane travel has only augmented the challenges to his endurance. ...
on performing ❧ 53 sandwich lunches, when all one wants is a decent meal because of not dining before the concert. Hostesses are ...
54 ❧ chapter two kind of sound the player hears. Sometimes it also affects what is transmitted to the audience. Exceedingly usef ...
on performing ❧ 55 fancy designs and high stages and some that are also theaters and lecture halls. There are always exceptions ...
56 ❧ chapter two churches are safer and indeed form excellent models for concert halls as, for example, the Musikvereinssaal^7 i ...
on performing ❧ 57 Furthermore, most of the literature of the harpsichord is unsuitable to a mod- ern recital program. Our ears ...
58 ❧ chapter two all, I can establish my musical intention before the ear has become deformed or misled by the actual sound of t ...
on performing ❧ 59 better than I play. Only rarely, and usually in connection only with the briefest amount of talking, am I equ ...
60 ❧ chapter two I have always found the criticism of journalists virtually useless. The less pre- tentious among them sometimes ...
on performing ❧ 61 which it was taught in the Landowska school; whether without this early disci- pline, I could have developed ...
62 ❧ chapter two harpsichord registration claptrap in which, for so many years, I had resorted in order to make palatable the so ...
Chapter Three On Recording If at any moment I were to be asked how I feel about recording, my immedi- ate reaction would be to r ...
64 ❧ chapter three without retakes. Nevertheless, I was far from satisfi ed with them, although at the time I must have been obl ...
on recording ❧ 65 for the Haydn Society with a chamber orchestra conducted by Alexander Schneider. The fi rst two movements prod ...
66 ❧ chapter three effi cacy and become disturbing in the course of the reiterated hearings that are possible with recordings. I ...
on recording ❧ 67 the recording sessions could be held only in the later evening and early morn- ing hours. While night recordin ...
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