Patrick Meadows and Stephanie Shepard Memorial Site
This page page highlights the articles that I think you’d like to read first, since new visitors overwhelmed with the amount of information posted on this web site. Some provide simple entertainment – stories, jokes biographical and semi-biographical musings – while others reflect the impact Pat and Stephanie had on peoples’ lives.
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An undated poem, probably from the 1970s, about a violinist.
A short poem from Galilea, October 1971.
Short poem from October 1971.
A bit of humor from Patrick, forwarded near the end of the last century.
Thoughts about today’s ninth anniversary of Patrick’s passing.
Here’s another letter from Fred to Pat and Mari, around New Year’s (what year? assume 1962?) in New York.
It opens with “It’s time I wrote. Hell, I’m a lousy correspondent.”
An undated letter to Pat and Mari referencing Rome and Lisbon.
It opens with “Listen, I’ll be in Rome by the end of the month c/o American Express” and ends with “Lisbon is lovely – I may go there to die – instead of Clarksville, Va as I had planned.”
I received the following note from Lionel and am sharing the good news with you here. The Coleridge-Taylor score has been updated by Michael Repper and released as a second edition. It is now in the public domain. Lionel and Patrick received special mention in the score’s Dedication as well as the Editor’s Note. – […]
Another recording of SC-T’s work is about to be released, this one on the Somm Recordings label. It can be pre-ordered now.
A poem by Patrick, referencing his mom.
It’s August 2025 and I just stumbled across this old recording dated 6 May 2017 describing a brief scene from Patrick’s post-burial reception.
Here’s another update to the May 3rd post about the new recording of some of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s orchestral music. The album is now formally available as a CD and on streaming services.
Contrary to his introductory sentence, Patrick tells a long story about the founding of the Deia International Festival of Music. Patrick also talks about his work with Daevid Allen and Gilli Smith of Gong.
A short scene study of Patrick’s home town including a few characters that would fit in a classic western.
Presto Music has announced the future release of the Coleridge-Taylor recording described earlier (on 3 May 2025).