Word: aforethought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music had been transcribed. What that nasty word seems to have consisted of is a rewriting to fit larger, more pompous groups of instruments. Leopold Stokowski seems really to enjoy the music of Bach, and has done quite a bit in calling attention to it. Yet, he, without malice aforethought, has done more than his rightful share in deforming the music to fit the large symphony orchestras to which he is accustomed. Or again, this year the Boston Symphony, too proud to use his arrangements, performed a reasonable facsimile thereof when they used two Bach Preludes that had been rearranged...