Reflections of an American Harpsichordist Unpublished Memoirs, Essays, and Lectures of Ralph Kirkpatrick
68 ❧ chapter three and standing screens that could be used to adjust the acoustics. However, it was insulated from the outside i ...
on recording ❧ 69 the day. But, since this was not always possible, we were at the mercy of chance. Again and again, I began a p ...
70 ❧ chapter three further undiscovered source. For the rest of the summer we sought to dodge them in much the same nerve-wracki ...
on recording ❧ 71 tuner. Although he was as good as his predecessor in setting up an exact equal temperament, his methods of tun ...
72 ❧ chapter three given occasion or during a given span of time when there is no opportunity for further work and refl ection. ...
on recording ❧ 73 could not judge from what I was hearing while playing what the sound on the playback would be like. In the stu ...
74 ❧ chapter three possible, we aimed to use originals for the fi nal choice, but for every “take” that was accepted it was also ...
Chapter Four On Chamber Music My collaboration with Alexander Schneider dates, in a way, from the concerts of the Budapest Quart ...
76 ❧ chapter four in relation to a theory. Often he reminded me of a dog smelling his way into a situation. His memory was likel ...
on chamber music ❧ 77 also commissioned numerous works from composers, some of them among the masterpieces of twentieth-century ...
78 ❧ chapter four me particularly on my fi rst visit was the civilized lifestyle. As in many seaport towns such as Hamburg, Lisb ...
on chamber music ❧ 79 In the spring of 1947, we embarked on a small European tour. It began some- what inauspiciously in Holland ...
80 ❧ chapter four preface to my Scarlatti book, he is the one musician from whom I learned more than from any other. In January ...
on chamber music ❧ 81 After the second series of fi ve concerts in 1945, other instrumentalists joined us in various combination ...
82 ❧ chapter four Piston Sonatina, and the Handel sonatas. But the main content of our pro- grams was provided by the Bach and M ...
Chapter Five On Harpsichords and Their Transport A few weeks after I had fi rst entered Harvard in the fall of 1927, I saw a har ...
84 ❧ chapter five At the end of the Harvard days I had little fi rsthand knowledge of old instru- ments. But on my fi rst visit ...
on harpsichords and their transport ❧ 85 recede within the past ten or fi fteen. Let me explain. The harpsichord may best be con ...
86 ❧ chapter five By the time I arrived in England, all large Dolmetsch harpsichords had the 16-foot, and the more recent a new ...
on harpsichords and their transport ❧ 87 I was obliged to be my own repairman. The fi rst, and one of the most impres- sive in a ...
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