David Garvey
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1922|3|13}}[https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JB15-468 Social Security Death Index: David W Garvey]
| birth_place = Reading, Pennsylvania
| death_date = {{death date and age|1995|02|14|1922|3|13}}
| death_place = New York City
| education = Juilliard School
| occupation = {{plainlist|
- Pianist
- Academic
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David William Garvey (March 13, 1922 – February 14, 1995) was an American pianist and academic. He is known as the regular accompanist of Leontyne Price and other performers, including violinists Itzhak Perlman, Michael Rabin and Wanda Wiłkomirska.
Career
Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, he studied at the Juilliard School with Beveridge Webster, graduating in 1948. He met Leontyne Price there, and began in 1953 to perform with her regularly on tours abroad and in the White House. In concerts with her, he was announced as pianist, not as accompanist.
He also collaborated with singers William Blankenship, Elizabeth Mannion, Mary O'Hara, Lucia Popp, Hermann Prey, and Jennie Tourel, and with violinists Joseph Fuchs, Itzhak Perlman, Michael Rabin, Charles Treger, and Wanda Wiłkomirska, among others.
Garvey taught at the University of Texas at Austin from 1976. He died in New York City.
Recordings
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Garvey recorded the three Violin Sonatas by Frederick Delius with Wanda Wiłkomirska in 1987. A review in Gramophone noted that their rendition was the best of this music until then, saying: "Both ... have the secret of preserving the music's heartbeat and keeping it moving forward, no matter how slow the tempo might be, and however flexibly they may phrase within a basic pulse."
A recording of the first recital that Leontyne Price gave at Carnegie Hall on 28 February 1965 was issued first in 2002, and reviewed as exceptional. The program included a variety of styles, mostly unfamiliar repertory: arias from operas by Handel, Giordano, Puccini and Cilea, songs by Johannes Brahms, Francis Poulenc, Samuel Barber and Lee Hoiby, spirituals and Gershwin's "Summertime". While a reviewer described the singer's part in detail, he summarily acknowledged that "Miss Price is sensitively accompanied throughout by David Garvey – a true musical partnership, this".
References
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| url = https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/delius-violin-sonatas-0
| title = Delius Violin Sonatas
| journal = Gramophone
| date = July 1987
| accessdate = 2 June 2018
}}
| title = New York Magazine
| date = 29 April 1968
| publisher = New York Media, LLC
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=iNkCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA19
| access-date = 15 June 2018
| page = 19
}}
| last = Oakes
| first = Loisann
| url = https://www.mcall.com/1987/10/09/soprano-pianist-touch-the-same-chord/
| title = Soprano, Pianist Touch The Same Chord
| newspaper = The Morning Call
| date = 9 October 1987
| access-date = 2 June 2018
}}
| last = Oestrich
| first = James R.
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/18/obituaries/david-garvey-72-accompanist-who-was-almost-a-partner-dies.html
| title = David Garvey, 72, Accompanist Who Was Almost a Partner, Dies
| newspaper = The New York Times
| date = 18 February 1995
| accessdate = 2 June 2018
}}
| author = Organization of American States
| title = Americas (English Ed.)
| publisher = Organization of American States
| issue = v. 16
| year = 1964
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=tHPjAAAAMAAJ
| access-date = 15 June 2018
| page = 39
}}
| last = Pasles
| first = Chris
| title = Music Review : Price Carries On Despite Grief at Pianist's Death
| work = Los Angeles Times
| date = 20 February 1995
| url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-02-20-ca-34021-story.html
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180615155623/http://articles.latimes.com/1995-02-20/entertainment/ca-34021_1_leontyne-price
| archive-date = 15 June 2018
| url-status = live
| access-date = 15 June 2018
}}
| title = Wanda Wilkomirska for children
| url = https://www.pigasus-shop.de/product_info.php/info/p5296_Wanda-Wilkomirska-Dzieciom.html
| website = pigasus-shop.de
| accessdate = 13 May 2018
}}
| last = Quinn
| first = John
| url = http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Nov02/Price.htm
| title = Leontyne Price Rediscovered
| website = musicweb-international.com
| date = November 2002
| accessdate = 2 June 2018
}}
| title = SFP – 1982–83 Season
| website = San Francisco Performances
| year = 1982
| url = https://sfperformances.org/aboutus/pastperformances/3rdSeason.html
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180615170745/https://sfperformances.org/aboutus/pastperformances/3rdSeason.html
| archive-date = 15 June 2018
| url-status = live
| access-date = 15 June 2018
}}
| title = Texas Monthly
| date = March 1979
| publisher = Emmis Communications
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Gy4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA14
| access-date = 15 June 2018
| page = 14
}}
| title = The Alcalde
| date = March–April 1983
| publisher = Emmis Communications
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Yi4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA9
| access-date = 15 June 2018
| page = 9
| quote = Pianist David Garvey ... takes bows with opera star Leontyne Price. A graduate of Juilliard School in New York, professor David Garvey has been piano accompanist for opera star Leontyne Price since 1953.
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External links
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- {{YouTube|id=Ln3cfkpbJo4|F. Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade. L. Price 1979.}}
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Category:Juilliard School alumni
Category:University of Texas at Austin faculty
Category:People from Reading, Pennsylvania
Category:American male pianists