{"product_id":"9781782049623","title":"Reflections of an American Harpsichordist: Unpublished Memoirs, Essays, and Lectures of Ralph Kirkpatrick","description":"This collection of unpublished writings by the eminent harpsichordist and scholar Ralph Kirkpatrick contains his memoirs for the period 1933-77 as well as essays on a variety of topics, including hispreparation for the first performance of Elliott Carter's \u003ci\u003eDouble Concerto\u003c\/i\u003e, thoughts on editing Bach's \u003ci\u003eGoldberg Variations\u003c\/i\u003e, and reflections on recording,  chamber music, performance, andharpsichords and their transport. The volume also contains five lectures from a Yale University lecture series presented between 1969 and 1971, a bibliography of publications by and about Kirkpatrick,a discography of his recordings, and a foreword by former Kirkpatrick student and renowned organist William Porter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Meredith Kirkpatrick, the niece of Ralph Kirkpatrick, is a librarian and bibliographer at Boston University and the editor of \u003ci\u003eRalph Kirkpatrick: Letters of the American Harpsichordist and Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Rochester Press, 2014).","brand":"Boydell \u0026 Brewer Group Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152262512880,"sku":"9781782049623","price":21.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781782049623_p0.jpg?v=1763717893","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781782049623","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}