Editing Jean-Pierre Rampal (section)

== Celebrity ==
[[File:Rampal-publicity.jpg|thumb|left|250px|At [[Boston Pops]] show in 1977]]
Throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, Rampal remained especially popular in the US and Japan (where he had first toured in 1964). He toured America annually<ref group=nb>His first concert there was in 1973.</ref> and was a regular presence at the Mostly Mozart Festival at the [[Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts|Lincoln Center]] in New York. At his busiest, he performed between 150 and 200 concerts a year.<ref name="Verroust, p. 26"/>
[[File:Jean-Pierre Rampal 1959 dedicated photo of first of three Southern Africa tours.jpeg|thumb|right|Rampal with Veyron-Lacroix 1959, photo dedicated on the first of three acclaimed Southern Africa musical tours organised by Hans Adler. [http://classicalmusicianstoza.blogspot.ca/2014/06/jean-pierre-rampal-french-flautist-and.html]]]

His range extended well beyond the orthodox: alongside the classical recordings, he recorded Catalan and Scottish folk songs, Indian music with sitarist [[Ravi Shankar]], and, accompanied by the French harpist [[Lily Laskine]], an album of Japanese folk melodies that was named album of the year in Japan. He also recorded [[Scott Joplin]] [[Ragtime|rags]] and [[Gershwin]], and collaborated with French jazz pianist [[Claude Bolling]]. The [[Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano]] (1975), written by Bolling especially for Rampal, topped the US [[Billboard charts|''Billboard'' charts]] and remained there for ten years. This raised his profile with the American public even further and led, in January 1981, to a TV appearance on [[Jim Henson]]'s ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', where he played "Lo, Hear the Gentle Lark" with [[Miss Piggy]]—and, suitably attired, "Ease on Down the Road" in a scene loosely based on the folktale of the [[Pied Piper of Hamelin|Pied Piper]].<ref>{{cite episode | title=Jean-Pierre Rampal | series=The Muppet Show | series-link=The Muppet Show | credits=Henson, Jim; Juhl, Jerry; Odell, David; Hinkley, Don (writers) | network=[[Associated Television|ATV]] | airdate=17 January 1981 | season=5 | number=12}}</ref>

Back on the classical stage, he was not afraid to be, as he put it, "a bit of a ham"; when performing [[Scott Joplin]]'s ''Ragtime Dance and Stomp'' as a concert hall encore, for example, he provided extra percussion by stamping his feet rhythmically on stage in time to the music.<ref>{{cite episode | title=Rampal—Prince of Flute Players | credits=Duran, Elena (presenter); Griffiths, Peter (producer) | network=BBC | series=Radio 4 | airdate=1983}}</ref>
Meanwhile, Bolling and Rampal came together again for Bolling's ''Picnic Suite'' (1980) with guitarist [[Alexander Lagoya]], the ''Suite No. 2 for Flute and Jazz Piano'' (1987), and also to perform the instrumental theme song "Goodbye For Now" by Stephen Sondheim for ''[[Reds (film)|Reds]]'', [[Warren Beatty]]'s 1981 movie about the Communist revolution in Russia. His reputation as a celebrity soloist in America became such that, as ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'' reported, one critic dubbed him "the Alexander of the flute, with no new worlds to conquer."<ref>{{cite journal | title=Jean-Pierre Rampal | date=September 1981 | last=Zukerman | first=Eugenia | journal=Esquire | number=3 | volume=96}}</ref> Following a performance of Mozart's [[Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra (Mozart)|Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra]] with the New York Philharmonic in 1976, ''New York Times'' critic [[Harold C. Schonberg]] wrote "Mr. Rampal, with his effortless long line, his sweet and pure tone and his sensitive musicianship, is of course one of the great flutists in history."<ref name="nytobit">{{cite news | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04EFD6103AF932A15756C0A9669C8B63 | title=Jean-Pierre Rampal, Virtuoso Flutist Who Achieved Success as a Soloist, Is Dead at 78 | date=21 May 2000 | access-date=27 November 2010 | last=Tommasini | first=Anthony | newspaper=The New York Times | location=New York}}</ref> Throughout these years of mounting celebrity, Rampal continued to research and edit sheet-music editions of flute works for publishing houses including Georges Billaudot in Paris and the International Music Company in the US.{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}}