Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
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Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (born 1925) is an Indian writer, former journalist, music conductor and editor. His is most noted as the author of Tivolem (1998), whose writing was funded by a New York Foundation for the Arts Fiction Fellowship (awarded 1991), and which was awarded the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award.
Biography[edit]
Born in Goa, counting Konkani, Portuguese, and English as his three mother tongues,[1][failed verification] he moved to Mumbai in 1939 and took his BA from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai in 1945. After a short spell teaching at high school, he moved into journalism. The 1940s already saw a number of his English-language short stories appearing in British Indian publications.
Work, employment[edit]
After Indian independence in 1947, Rangel-Ribeiro became assistant editor and music critic of the National Standard, Sunday editor for the Calcutta edition of the Times of India (1953), and a literary editor for The Illustrated Weekly. He was the first Indian to be appointed Copy Chief at the advertising giant J Walter Thompson's Bombay office, but migrated to the US just months later.
In 1956 emigrated to the United States, along with his wife, Lea, and worked part-time as a music critic for the New York Times From 1964 to 1973 he ran a music antiquariat in New York City, became director of the New York Beethoven Society (overseeing its entry into the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts).[2]
Education[edit]
In 1983 he took an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University, taught for a time in private and public schools, and then became involved in coordinating adult literacy teaching.[2]
Personal life[edit]
He and his musician-educationist wife Lea (d.2011)[3] have two children.[2]
Works[edit]
This is a partial bibliography.
Non-fiction[edit]
- Souza: The Artist, His Loves and His Times (Goa: Goa Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2019) – biography of F. N. Souza
Novels[edit]
- Tivolem (Minneapolis: Milkweed, 1998)
Short stories[edit]
- 'The Miscreant', The Iowa Review 20.2 (1990): 52–65,[4]
- 'Madonna of the Raindrops' and 'Day of the Baptist', Literary Review, 39.4 (1998)
- 'Senhor Eusebio Builds his Dream House' and 'Angel Wings', in Ferry Crossing: Short Stories from Goa, ed. by Manohar Shetty (New Delhi: Penguin, 1998)
- Loving Ayesha and Other Tales from Near and Far (2002)
- 'Keeping in Touch', The Little Magazine, 2.4,[5]
- 'The Miscreant', Selected Stories 1949-2016 (2017)
Music[edit]
- Baroque Music, a Practical Guide for the Performer (New York: Schirmer, 1981)
- Victor Rangel-Ribeiro and Robert Markel. Chamber Music: An International Guide to Works and Their Instrumentation (New York: Facts on File, 1993)
- Damoreau, Laure-Cinthie, Classic Bel Canto Technique, trans. by Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (Mineola: Dover, 1997)
- Chausson, Ernest, Selected Songs for Voice and Piano, trans. by Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (Mineola: Dover, 1998)
- Chausson, Ernest, Concerto in D for Piano, Violin, and String Quartet, Op. 21 in Full Score, ed. by Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (Minneola: Dover, 1999)
- Saint-Saens, Camille, Danse Macabre and Other Works for Piano Solo', ed. by Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (Mineola: Dover, 1999)
- Satie, Erik, Parade and Other Works for Piano Four Hands, ed. by Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (Mineola: Dover, 1999)
- Satie, Erik, Parade in Full Score, ed. by Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (Mineola: Dover, 2000)
References[edit]
- ^ "The MacMillan Center". The MacMillan Center. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
- ^ a b c Gita Rajan, 'Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (1925-)', in South Asian Novelists in English: An A-to-Z Guide, ed. by Jaina C. Sanga (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2003), pp. 207-11 (p. 207).
- ^ Aseem Chhabra (Oct 1, 2011). "She smelled of Indianness". Bangalore Mirror. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ^ Rangel-Ribeiro, Victor (1990-04-01). "The Miscreant". The Iowa Review. 20 (2): 52–65. doi:10.17077/0021-065X.3883. ISSN 0021-065X.
- ^ "The Little Magazine - Victor Rangel-Ribeiro - Keeping in touch". www.littlemag.com. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
External links[edit]
- "Virtual book release of Souza: The Artist, His Loves, & His Times". Facebook. Sunaparanta, Goa Centre for the Arts. 21 January 2021.