Patrick Meadows and Stephanie Shepard Memorial Site
There is a Facebook page dedicated to the Music Festival founded by Patrick and Stephanie. Alfredo, who took over the festival when Patrick retired, was featured in a recent magazine or newspaper, and posted the attached article via Facebook. I appreciate that he mentions Patrick early on. Here it is, in Spanish. If someone would […]
Based on his letters from Harlan Ellison, I believe Patrick attended the very first Clarion Science Fiction Writer’s Workshop in 1968. I visited the Clarion web site a couple of days ago and realized that his name was not included on the list of alumni. I wrote to them about it and a very kind […]
From Patrick’s files, here’s an article about the 29th festival, with pictures of the Leonardo Trio of Munich and Misha Rachlevsky.
Lee sent me some more newspaper clippings, which I’ve attached here. These highlight Patrick’s early years in music. Sun Bowl Bound (PDF) Dat’s It (PDF)
Ivonne sent me these photos of a book by Oona Lind Napier and Jackie Waldren. As you can see, Patrick and Stephanie are featured as is their good friend Suzy Bradbury.
We were recent American expatriates, and the naiveté this implies was a great advantage. We had no inkling of the restrictions and impediments in front of us when we dreamed up the music festival. As one friend put it, we could have called it the chutzpah festival. It all started innocently enough. Stephanie played the […]
Here’s an article from El Pais in December 1989 about the chamber orchestra in Granada, which Patrick and Stephanie worked hard to establish.
At least, that’s what I think this article is about. Spanish readers out there: comments? It looks like it’s from Ideal, Diaro Regional de Andalucia and is dated 28 March 1989.
This is the announcement for the inaugural sunset concert series, performing as Tafelmusik at Son Marroig.
Here’s an article about two concerts, but I don’t know the name of the magazine (could it be Diario de Ibiza?) or when it was published. My guess is early 1980s because of the reference to the Paramusical Workshop, so I’ll give it a time stamp of 25 Dec 1980.
An article in the Majorca Daily Bulletin about another one of Pat and Stephanie’s early concerts.
Found in a stack of letters I’ve been saving for decades, this photocopy of a newspaper clipping from Hoja del Lunes, 18 August 1980.
Here’s another undated article from another unknown newspaper that I found in my files. Patrick, Stephanie, Vera Blum, and Barry Wiggings are all mentioned. I’ll assume a date of 11 Apr 1980 because of the reference to the Paramusical Workshop, but I could be off by a few months or years.
An article from an unknown newspaper or magazine with the heading The Riki ‘Lash’ Lazaar Show dated 11 April 1980, praising Pat and Stephanie’s work and sensibilities.
Here’s a photo of the Zambak, a newspaper clipping (incomplete) about the episode with a picture of Mari on the cover, and some e-mail exchanges explaining more of what happened. There is a fuller story he sent me on 25 Dec 2013 that you might enjoy. Patrick wrote the following back-story: Here is the boat […]