Acknowledgments

I would fi rst like to thank the staff of the Gilmore Music Library at Yale

University, which holds the archive of Ralph Kirkpatrick’s papers. I am espe-

cially grateful to archivist Richard Boursy for his extremely effi cient and timely

assistance. I would also like to thank Susan Gibbons, university librarian at Yale

University, who granted permission to use the papers and some of the photo-

graphs found in this volume. They are from the Ralph Kirkpatrick Papers, MSS

11, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Yale University.

I am very grateful to William Porter for writing the foreword to this book.

He is a distinguished organist and teacher and studied with Ralph Kirkpatrick

at Yale. I appreciate his contribution.

I would like to thank Andrew King of BBC Radio 3 for producing a segment

on Ralph Kirkpatrick for the Music Matters program that aired on January 31,

2015. King highlighted my previous book of RK’s letters in this program and
      included interesting clips of RK playing and speaking, as well as several inter-
      views. Andrew King and Vicky Mitchell were also helpful in following up on
      a copyright question with regard to a BBC interview that is included in this
      volume. The BBC has granted permission for publication of the interview with
      Ralph Kirkpatrick that aired on BBC Radio 3 Music Weekly on September 23,


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      I appreciate very much Marc Benador’s technical assistance, interest, and
      encouragement with regard to this project. My brother, Laird Kirkpatrick, a
      person much admired by our uncle and the author of numerous books on law,
      had a family interest in this project and provided much encouragement for
      which I am very grateful.
      Finally, I would like to thank the staff of the University of Rochester Press,
      including Julia Cook, Sonia Kane, Tracey Engel, Ryan Peterson, Rosemary
      Shojaie, and most particularly Ralph Locke, the senior editor of Eastman
      Studies in Music. Ralph has always been extraordinarily helpful throughout
      the publication process, and I can’t thank him enough.
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