Paul Rapoport (music critic)

Paul Rapoport (born 1948 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a musicologist, music critic, and composer who was from 1977 to 2005 a professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

He received his bachelor's degree in linguistics and music at the University of Michigan in 1970 and his master's degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1972 with a thesis on Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony. He went on to gain a doctorate at the same university in 1975, with a dissertation about Vagn Holmboe's four Symphonic Metamorphoses.

Part of the substantial collection of material related to composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji at McMaster University's library was obtained thanks to then-professor Rapoport's efforts . In addition to his work on Sorabji, he has been most associated with the music of Havergal Brian, Vagn Holmboe and Allan Pettersson as well as with various aspects of microtonal music. He has made use of microtones in his own compositions, which include a set of partsongs to poems by Erica Jong. As a critic he wrote mostly for the American magazine Fanfare, but also for Tempo, the American Record Guide, and others.

Bibliography

Books

• Holmboe, Vagn; Paul Rapoport (translator, editor, introduction), Robert Simpson (foreword) Experiencing Music: a composer's notes. London: Toccata Press.
• Rapoport, Paul; Truscott, Harold Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony, Two Studies. Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England: The Havergal Brian Society.
• Rapoport, Paul Opus est : six composers from Northern Europe. New York: Taplinger.
• Rapoport, Paul, ed. Sorabji: A Critical Celebration. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Scolar Press.
• Rapoport, Paul The compositions of Vagn Holmboe : a catalog of works and recordings with indexes of persons and titles. Copenhagen: Wilhelm Hansen.

Articles

• Johnson, Stephen "Review of Experiencing Music: a composer's notes". Tempo 181 66–7.
• Rapoport, Paul "Sorabji and the Computer". Tempo 117 23–26.
• Rapoport, Paul "Roger Sessions: A Discography". Tempo 127 17–20.
• Rapoport, Paul "The Symphonies of Talivaldis Kenins". Tempo 157 13–20.
• Rapoport, Paul "Some Equal Temperaments are more equal than others ... and decidedly more temperamental". Musicworks (43): 8–12.
• Rapoport, Paul (1993). "The Structural Relationships of Fifths and Thirds in Equal Temperaments". Journal of Music Theory 37 (2): 351–389.
• Rapoport, Paul "Vainberg: Symphony No.17, Memory, Op.137. The Banners of Peace, Op.143 by USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra; Vladimir Fedoseyev; Moisey Vainberg. Vainberg: Symphonies - No.14, Op.117; No.18, War - There Is No Crueller Word, Op.138 by USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra; Vladimir Fedoseyev; Latvian State Academic Choir; Imants Tsepitis; Moisey Vainberg". Tempo 202 30–31.
• Rapoport, Paul "Review of Anders Beyer's The Music of Per Nørgård: Fourteen Interpretative Essays". Notes, 2nd Ser. 53 (4): 1170–1.
• Rapoport, Paul "Review of Donemus Recording of Röntgen Concertos". Tempo 215 64.
• Rapoport, Paul "A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony by Pauline Fairclough. Ashgate, £55.00. SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 4, composer's arrangement for two pianos. Rustem Hayroudinoff, Colin Stone (pnos). Chandos CHAN 10296. SHOSTAKOVICH: New Collected Works, Vol. 4. Symphony No. 4, orchestral score, edited by Manashir Yakubov. DSCH Publishers, 2003. SHOSTAKOVICH: New Collected Works, Vol. 19. Symphony No. 4, composer's arrangement for two pianos, edited by Manashir Yakubov. DSCH Publishers, 2000.". Tempo 60 (238): 76–80.
• Wright, David "Review of Sorabji: A Critical Celebration". The Musical Times 134 (1805): 397.

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