JAVS Fall 2006

and Ellen D. Lehmer interviews, please bear in mind rhar these are transcribed conversations with repeated phrases, redundanr words, and pauses which create a rhythm for eign to most formal wriring and quire in conrrast to Iarke's written style. h will be necessa ry to read with one's ears as much as the eyes to catch the flow of the conversation-try to imagine yourself sitting in rhe room with Iarke and her guests and being privy ro all rhar is sa id. Clarke's speaking sryle-more English than American reveals a woman of gentili ty, charm, grace, humili ty, intelligence, insight, and experi ence.. . to say nothing of eloquence. ominuing, in her own words and extrapolat ed from the herman , Uscher, and Lerner interviews: Insight and Experience: Observations by Rebecca Clarke: On Paul Hindemirh as violist premiering the Walton oncerto for Viola and Orchestra:" ...Hindernith , obvi ously, was the kind of player who was a fine musician , but didn't practice. And he was playing with practically no vibrato, and in a way that was quire different from the wayTerris would have wanted to. " (216) O n performing S honberg: "We did rhe Five Orchestral Pieces of chi:i nberg- rhey seem pretty strange even now and they seemed extn::mely strange rhen!" (2 16) n being one of eight women to play in the Queen's Hall O rchestra and the men's reaction: ".. .Yes, rhar was really quite a thri ll , because it was considered very, very strange to have women in a symphony orchestra. 1 remember the men were di gusted, bur then they were friend ly after we got in, you know [and they got used co usj." (214) On John Maseft eld, writer of The Seal Man, the poem LO which she wrote "her best song:" " . ..And after all , poets, their work is complete. And that somebody else fools around with their words doesn't impress them at al l. " (2 18) On Pinchas Zukerman's appea rance in a recording of ir hades ranford's Piano Qui nter: '~d Zukerman, you know, played it marvclou ly and firred in marvelously. Ir was a little bit roo violin-ish.. .a little bit over vibrato." ( 193)

On Anthony Trent, Iarke's male pseudonym:

... f thought it's idiotic to have my name down flS composer three times on theprogram, I'll invent a name. .. .And I

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