The Independent - London, March 25th, 1996
Olga Rudge was a distinguished violinist and later an important musicologist in the domain of baroque instrumental music, but she is remembered now more vividly for her devotion to the great American poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972).
She was born in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1895 but educated in England and in Paris. Her family was of Irish Catholic descent and she remained a practising Catholic throughout her life. After the First World War she gave a number of concerts in London, one of which Pound reviewed in A.R. Orage's the New Age. They met again in 1920 in Paris, when Pound invited the young ava...
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