Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Foreword: “The Glowing of Such Fire”—A Tribute to Ralph Kirkpatrick
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Family
- Part Two Friends, Colleagues, and Other Correspondence
- 2 Nadia Boulanger
- 3 Alexander Mackay-Smith
- 4 Wanda Landowska
- 5 John Challis
- 6 Serge Koussevitzky
- 7 Oliver Strunk
- 8 Roger Sessions
- 9 Harold Spivacke
- 10 Steinway & Sons
- 11 New York Times
- 12 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
- 13 John Kirkpatrick
- 14 Alexander Schneider
- 15 Otto Luening
- 16 Donald Boalch
- 17 John Hamilton
- 18 Thornton Wilder
- 19 Lincoln Kirstein
- 20 Arthur Mendel
- 21 Edward Steuremann
- 22 Frank Martin
- 23 Olin Downes
- 24 Albert Fuller
- 25 Elliott Carter
- 26 Quincy Porter
- 27 Vincent Persichetti
- 28 Henry Cowell
- 29 Mel Powell
- 30 Bengt Hambraeus
- 31 Alec Hodson
- 32 Paul Fromm
- 33 Wolfgang Zuckermann
- 34 Kenneth Gilbert
- 35 Mr. and Mrs. George Young
- 36 Colin Tilney
- 37 Oliver Daniel
- 38 Eliot Fisk
- 39 Wilton Dillon
- 40 William Dowd
- 41 Meredith Kirkpatrick
- Afterword: Lessons with Kirkpatrick
- Appendixes
13 - John Kirkpatrick
from Part Two - Friends, Colleagues, and Other Correspondence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2014
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Foreword: “The Glowing of Such Fire”—A Tribute to Ralph Kirkpatrick
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Family
- Part Two Friends, Colleagues, and Other Correspondence
- 2 Nadia Boulanger
- 3 Alexander Mackay-Smith
- 4 Wanda Landowska
- 5 John Challis
- 6 Serge Koussevitzky
- 7 Oliver Strunk
- 8 Roger Sessions
- 9 Harold Spivacke
- 10 Steinway & Sons
- 11 New York Times
- 12 Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
- 13 John Kirkpatrick
- 14 Alexander Schneider
- 15 Otto Luening
- 16 Donald Boalch
- 17 John Hamilton
- 18 Thornton Wilder
- 19 Lincoln Kirstein
- 20 Arthur Mendel
- 21 Edward Steuremann
- 22 Frank Martin
- 23 Olin Downes
- 24 Albert Fuller
- 25 Elliott Carter
- 26 Quincy Porter
- 27 Vincent Persichetti
- 28 Henry Cowell
- 29 Mel Powell
- 30 Bengt Hambraeus
- 31 Alec Hodson
- 32 Paul Fromm
- 33 Wolfgang Zuckermann
- 34 Kenneth Gilbert
- 35 Mr. and Mrs. George Young
- 36 Colin Tilney
- 37 Oliver Daniel
- 38 Eliot Fisk
- 39 Wilton Dillon
- 40 William Dowd
- 41 Meredith Kirkpatrick
- Afterword: Lessons with Kirkpatrick
- Appendixes
Summary
John Kirkpatrick (1905–91) was an American pianist and scholar who was instrumental in promoting the music of the American composer Charles Ives. He is probably best known for his performances of the Concord Sonata; he gave the New York premiere of the work at Town Hall in 1939. He was also asked to catalog the manuscripts of the composer that had been given to the Yale Music Library in 1956. A Temporary Mimeographed Catalogue of the Music Manuscripts and Related Materials of Charles Edward Ives, 1874–1954 was published in 1960.
John Kirkpatrick joined the faculty of Yale University in 1968. Both he and Ralph Kirkpatrick were teaching at Yale at that time, but they had established a friendship as early as the 1940s. They were not related, as far as they knew, but they clearly had a warm friendship. Because they were both keyboard players with the same last name, they regularly received correspondence meant for the other Kirkpatrick. Some letters had sections that clearly related to John while other sections clearly related to Ralph. Both men responded with good humor and passed on the letters to each other.
October 2, 1943
Dear Ralph,
I am sending you under separate cover an editing of the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue that I did this summer. It started out just as a copy to have something reliable to give pupils (I didn't know then that Kalmus had reprinted Bischoff), but it ended up as something considerably more thorough than originally intended. I thought you'd be amused to see it, even though the whole interpretative side of it has the twentieth-century piano in mind. If you happen to have time to look at it, I'd appreciate gratefully any comments or criticisms that occur to you… .
How are things with you? I wish we could get down to NY [a] week from Tuesday to hear your “Concert at Nine.” We'll be thinking of you though.
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- Ralph KirkpatrickLetters of the American Harpsichordist and Scholar, pp. 89 - 94Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014