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.
I’ve just added an option to this web site that allows you to receive e-mail whenever I add something to the site. To use this feature, look to the right for “New Post Notifications” just below the Select Language and Search … options. Enter your e-mail address. then click the “Receive Notifications” button.
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).
Robert Graves was a famous author who made his home in Deia and was a celebrity there. Patrick wrote this long piece about their meeting in 2014. I’ve also included some out-takes at the end of the main story.
Patrick reflects on a recurring dream about a house in West Virginia and an old woman with a big book.
Patrick and Stephanie’s dear friend Suzanne Bradbury will be performing in Soller with Ursula Pomar on 18 May 2025. If you are on Mallorca, hopefully you can attend this concert. It sounds like a wonderful program.
This is the eulogy I wrote for my brother Jim (no relation to Patrick). Jim’s life was so very different from Patrick’s. It provides an interesting contrast in the influences I faced growing up.
More of Patrick’s efforts are making it to disc with the release of several works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor on the Avie label, recorded by the National Philharmonic conducted by Michael Repper and featuring violinist Curtis Stewart.
This post explains how it all came about.
Here’s an autobiographic segment about Patrick’s childhood neighborhood in Florida interspersed with flashbacks to less distant times. There are some moments of graphic language.
Patrick describes a trip to visit cousins when he was almost eleven, and concludes with a list a topics that were other West Virginia stories he wanted to write.