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Early Music Pioneer, (1932-2005)
Complete Interviews on three CDs:
MP3 audio with transcript (indexed for easy search) and huge photo album.
$39 plus $4 postage and handling
Laurette Goldberg (1932-2005), beloved teacher, founder of MusicSources, Philharmonia Baroque, and other musical enterprises recorded twenty two hours of lively interviews in 1996. She chronicled her life, her career, and early music performance in the Bay Area and on the international scene.
Laurette’s love of music and passion for her work are manifested in this precious document, now available on two MP3 CDs and a data CD containing the complete transcript in PDF and over 2,000 JPEG photographs.
Partial Contents:
First Piano Lessons • Discovering Johann Sebastian Bach • High School Years • Saint Mary’s of Notre Dame • Chicago Musical College • Rudolph Ganz • Baroque Music in the 1950s • Mills College in the 1950s and 1960s • Studying with Egon Petri • Accompanying the San Francisco Opera and Ballet • A Job With the Oakland Symphony • Introduction to the Harpsichord • Ralph Kirkpatrick • Laurette as a Cafe Harpsichordist • Gustav Leonhardt • The Importance of Articulation • Alan Curtis • Teaching at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music • The Elizabethan Trio • Learning How to Touch the Harpsichord • Tapestry • 1750 Arch Street • Early Music Society • Cazadero Music Camp • Junior Bach Festival • Bay Area Harpsichord Builders • Teaching and Performing in Israel • The Birth of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra • The Original Players for Philharmonia • Nicholas McGegan • MusicSources is Born • Choosing a Home for MusicSources • MusicSources Instrument Collections • MusicSources History Garden • MusicSources Threatened with Closure • MusicSources Library • Teaching at UC Berkeley • Memorable Students and Teaching Experiences • Writing and Publishing • Laurette’s Principal Roles in the Historical Performance Community
Excerpts from the interviews:
“It’s the overcoming of problems that leads us to heights -- emotional, physical and intellectual.”
“Humor is the very major thing in my life. Humor is what makes life possible, I think.”
“The motivation for virtually everything I have ever done has been, first, enthusiasm for the idea or project, like Bach or Baroque music or the role of performance practice or whatever... I’m always aware that I’m adding to the list.”
“For me the consummation of any enthusiasm is always the sharing of it with somebody... There is a physical need to share my enthusiasm with other people... I’m not happy unless I’m finding out about things and sharing it.”
“The most important thing is not to allow oneself to say no to one’s dreams... insist on finding what your passions are... and never say no for lack of money or time. One can find money and time given the inspiration that comes from feeling the passion.”
A Performer’s Guide and Anthology of Critical Appreciation
$35 plus postage and handling.
"The Goldberg Variations Reader will make an excellent resource for performers of the piece.... the reprinting of these landmark articles and the wonderful opening chapter on the history of the rediscovery will make it extremely useful."
—John Butt, Organist, Harpsichordist, and Gardiner Professor of Music, University of Glasgow
A Handbook for Keyboard Teachers and Performers
98 pages
$25 plus postage and handling
"Laurette Goldberg beautifully shapes our mind into a well-tuned instrument for the analysis of Bach’s preludes and fugues. In the future, it will be difficult to tamper with the Forty Eight."
—Gustav Leonhardt
"Laurette Goldberg’s Handbook — lively, full of important information, and charmingly written — is obviously a labor of love. I cannot imagine a keyboard student who would not profit from its insights."
—Richard Goode
"This guide fills a significant gap in the literature on the Well-Tempered Clavier and cannot be ignored by players at any level. Laurette Goldberg miraculously uses her idiosyncratic style to convey points of great general import."
—John Butt, Distinguished Bach Scholar and Organist, Cambridge University
There are moments of insight that are breathtaking. Her writing is not only intensely stimulating for the mature artist, but is also a brilliant guide for teachers and students at every level."
—Mack McCray, Piano Faculty, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Also available:
Books I and II OPEN SCORE editions
Medallion Guild
Hardcover
$25 each plus postage and handling.
Music in open score presents each voice part on a separate staff.
OPEN SCORE editions The Forty-Eight Fugues and Four Preludes
Paperback edition
161 pages
$20 plus postage and handling.
Supplement to the above:
$9 plus postage and handling.
$14 plus postage and handling.
$15 plus postage and handling.
The most up-to-date Scarlatti index, based on recent scholarship; with concordances to Longo plus arrangements by keys.
Vocal Chamber Music in the Bach Cantatas
MusicSources and PRB Productions
$30 plus postage and handling
For everyone interested in BACH vocal chamber works. A new perspective containing 130 pages of scores from the Neue Bach Ausgabe and repertory guides.
“Laurette Goldberg has written an extremely useful guide for teachers, students, and performers. She explains clearly the national styles in the Baroque period and provides valuable information on source materials. Her comprehensive index of arias and cantatas for all voice categories, divided in degrees of difficulty, will help teachers to choose appropriate repertory for their students so they will not be ’afraid’ of singing Bach.”
—Judith Nelson