In November 2011 David Patterson, a musicologist from Oak Park, Illinois, gave a wonderful keyboard accompanied presentation on the influence of classical music on Frank
Lloyd Wright’s architecture in the Greatbatch Pavilion of the Darwin D. Martin House. Wright makes it clear in his autobiography that an
appreciation of music was the one great gift he received from his father, but it
is a fleeting acknowledgment and the weight of significance in Wright’s
formation, according to Wright, falls largely to his mother.
Nevertheless, Wright’s architecture is redolent with
musicality and this is nowhere more evident than at Taliesin and Taliesin West where
music was an essential part of daily life in the fellowship years (and it
continues today in the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture) and in
Wisconsin Wright was known to broadcast Beethoven across the valley for the
edification of local farmers. It appears that William Cary Wright’s impact on
his son, once a mere footnote in history, is about to blossom into tangibility
and significance: Through years of research David Patterson has located more
than twenty pieces of music composed by Wright’s father and is seeking funding
through the Kickstarter program to create the first ever recording of the music
of William C. Wright. If he
succeeds we can all hear what Wrightheard his father creating during his childhood
and historians and critics of music will be able to determine the quality of
the work. If you are interested in helping David succeed
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| William Cary Wright go to this link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2112817236/frank-lloyd-wrights-influences-the-music-of-wm-c-w |
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