Victor Rangel-Ribeiro

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.

Victor Rangel-Ribeiro, author, editor and former journalist.

Biography

Born in Goa, counting Konkani, Portuguese, and English as his three mother tongues,[1] 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

After independence, he 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.

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 and as the first Indian copy chief for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson.

From 1964-73 he ran a music antiquariat, became director of the New York Beethoven Society (overseeing its entry into the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts).[2]

Education

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

He and his musician-educationist wife Lea (d.2011)[3] have two children.[2]

Works

This is a partial bibliography.

Novels
  • Tivolem (Minneapolis: Milkweed, 1998)

Short stories
  • '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]

Music
  • 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
  1. "The MacMillan Center". The MacMillan Center. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
  2. 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).
  3. Oct 1, Aseem ChhabraAseem Chhabra / Updated:; 2011; Ist, 19:29. "She smelled of Indianness". Bangalore Mirror. Retrieved 2020-11-13.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. Rangel-Ribeiro, Victor (1990-04-01). "The Miscreant". The Iowa Review. 20 (2): 52–65. doi:10.17077/0021-065X.3883. ISSN 0021-065X.
  5. "The Little Magazine - Victor Rangel-Ribeiro - Keeping in touch". www.littlemag.com. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
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