Ives and Yale: The Enduring Influence of a College Experience

01 October 1999 being repeated in the 1975 biography by Frank Rossiter.46 The first chink in this view came in the early 1970s when John Kirkpatrick and Victor Fell Yellin noted Parker's influence on Ives's Celestial Country.47 Then Rosalie Sandra Perry, in her 1974...

Interesting Lies and Curious Truths About Carl Ruggles

01 October 1979 Massachusetts, on March 11, 1876. The only fairly recent article that deals with Carl's life at all was written by John Kirkpatrick, his music executor, which appeared in Perspectives of New Music entitled, "The Evolution of Carl Ruggles," and then...

Performance as an Avenue to Educational Realities in Music

01 October 1964 required work within a single department, or in closely related departments exceed 42 credit hours. In this article, John Kirkpatrick provides a philosophic basis for performance in humanistic study. Also in this discussion, Luise Vosgerchian describes...

Appreciation Without Apologies

02 October 2006 Admit it: music appreciation is square. In the recent film comedy School of Rock, when a bumbling rocker somehow gets a job teaching at a stuffy prep school and begins teaching classes in "rock history and appreciation," what's funny is how the film...

Remembering American Composer Arthur Farwell and His Family: An Interview with His Son, Jonathan

01 February 2016 we have a recording of the 1939 radio broadcast, taken off the air (you can imagine its technical inadequacies!). John Kirkpatrick played his Navajo War Dance No. 2, and probably other things. Jeanne Behrend played his "Sourwood Mountain,"2 as well as...

Approaching Musical Classicism—Understanding Styles and Style Change in Eighteenth-Century Instrumental Music

01 October 1980 I Historical/stylistic periods in music are both useful and perplexing concepts; they simultaneously clarify and hinder one's perception of a given period and a given work. Part of the difficulty arises from a general lack of agreement as to what...

Bernstein's Senior Thesis At Harvard: The Roots of a Lifelong Search to Discover an American Identity

01 October 2008 of the Concord Sonata (published in 1920). This monumental work had received its historic first performances by John Kirkpatrick at Cos Cob, Connecticut, on November 28, 1938 and at Town Hall in New York on January 20, 1939, that is while Bernstein was...

The Basic Piano Program at Harvard University

01 October 1964 Piano Program at Harvard where performance is required without credit toward the degree. Also in this discussion, John Kirkpatrick provides a philosophic basis for performance in humanistic study, and William Newman and Putnam Aldrich, both scholars and...

A Vote for Applied Music in the Undergraduate Liberal Arts Music Program

01 October 1964 by Putnam Aldrich, both scholars and performers enter a plea for credit for "applied music." Also in this discussion, John Kirkpatrick provides a philosophic basis for performance in humanistic study, and Luise Vosgerchian describes the Basic Piano...

Musical Performance as a Humanistic Study

01 October 1964 by William Newman, both scholars and performers enter a plea for credit for "applied music." Also in this discussion, John Kirkpatrick provides a philosophic basis for performance in humanistic study, and Luise Vosgerchian describes the Basic Piano...

The Contemporary Chamber Ensemble in Residence at Rutgers University

01 October 1966 I In response to requests concerning the organization and activities of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble in Residence at Rutgers, we are pleased to offer an account of its first year. The impulse to establish a relationship between the ensemble and a...

Campus Focus: Baldwin-Wallace College

01 October 1969 Baldwin-Wallace College is located in Berea, Ohio, a suburb lying on the outer edge of the Cleveland metropolitan area. It was founded in 1845 in affiliation with the Methodist Church. The institution currently enrolls just over 2400 full-time day...