Herman Whitfield III was killed in police custody. But this prolific pianist and composer left behind so much more as his legacy. 'His loss is irreplaceable for the music community. I mean, minds like that don't come along every day.'
INDIANAPOLIS — Right before his death on April 25, 2022, Herman Whitfield III was finally starting to come out of a creative dry spell that held him captive for 2 years.
"He just is also a very, very deep thinker, in addition to being a very gifted musician. So we had a lot of really fun political conversations. Excellent. It was great. He knew so much about the world," Kitterman said. Losing Whitfield is as much of a loss to the music world as it is to the world at large, Kitterman says.
Whitfield played and studied under Kitterman while attending Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School. Mali Jeffers, who was one year above Whitfield in high school, remembers when everyone would listen to Whitfield play in the gym. As a teen, Whitfield could not only play by ear — which, truthfully, most musicians can — but he could play any part exactly as it was written, no reduction, by memory, and on the spot.
The pair played several pieces together. Harvey wishes they were on video somewhere, noting that this was before YouTube was even created."That was horse and buggy days." "I regularly perform music with a classically trained violinist and cellist that are specifically written for piano, violin, and cello and have become staples of the classical literature. However, I have also sought to further our interpretive skills by arranging music for our specific instruments in ways that are idiomatic," Whitfield said in a 2017 Q&A with Jay Whipple on Trend Magazine Online.
"I remember it had all kinds of octaves in it; scale passages that were challenging. So, he knew how to make it challenging for the violinist. And, if you look at great composers from the past that wrote great violin works, they knew how to write for the violin tunes. So that impressed me," Staples said."But from an emotional standpoint, I just saw this color in it. And I saw something special, musically speaking, in it that did speak to me.
For Terry Langdon, on the other hand, who has played the viola for the ISO for 43 years, Whitfield's Scherzo No. 2 had such an impression on her that she still has the sheet music in her personal collection. In 2013, Whitfield took a job in Miami, Florida, at The Ancient Spanish Monastery as an accompanist and composer.
"I kind of heard his name whispered in some of the jazz spots around town, but I never actually met the guy, so I was really excited to meet him when I finally did get a chance," Graves said. It was a reputation that, if you were even remotely glued into the Indy music scene at the time, Graves said, you no doubt would've heard about Whitfield.
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