Word: kirkpatrick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coolidge has brought the London, Pro Arte, Roth, and Rose Quarters to this country as well as the Italian Trio and the English Singers. All those groups have travelled under her auspices along with those which she organized herself, including Alexander Schneider and Ralph Kirkpatrick...
Power-Seeking. In the old days at the University of Minnesota, his favorite instructor, Ervon M. Kirkpatrick, once quoted to him a useful maxim: "Power goes to those who seek it." Power-seeking Hubert Humphrey first had to force a showdown within his own sprawling party. For months, Humphrey lieutenants stumped the state, lining up delegates to fight the Wallaceites and Communists in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor ranks (Humphrey broke with Wallace after Wallace's pro-Soviet speech at Madison...
Ives: Sonata No. 2, "Concord" (John Kirkpatrick, pianist; Columbia, 9 sides). Written around 1913 by the long "forgotten" U.S. composer who is a recluse in Connecticut, this sonata, has been called "the greatest music composed by an American," which is neither true nor saying so much as it seems to. Listeners will find it hard digging at first, but there is gold there. The performance is better than the dull recording...
...inter-war period added such familiar names to the roster as Virgil Thomson '22, music critic of the New York Herald-Tribune, Walter Piston '24, recently named Naumberg Professor of Music whose Third Symphony was awarded the Pulitzer Music Prize this week, and G. Wallace Woodworth '24. Ralph Kirkpatrick '31, famed harpsichordist of the duo, Schneider and Kirkpatrick, was a featured performer in the group during his college days...
...something of a formality to add that Kirkpatrick, on the harpsichord, and Schneider, on the violin, performed with unusual sensitivity and balance. Harpsichord or no harpsichord, Mozart, Bach, and Scarlatti can sound as they did last week only when played by uncommonly fine artists...