Word: dolmetsch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Long Jump--1. Scott Huray, Dartmouth, 22-ft., 8 1/4-in.; 2. Rob Gustafson, Harvard, 22-ft., 3 1/2-in.; 3. Rich Dolmetsch, Brown, 21-ft., 9 3/4-in...
...Mozart's myriad works were regularly performed. With composers like Schumann, Brahms and Wagner churning out masterwork after masterwork, there was little need to revive the past. But as the musical repertory gradually evolved into a monument to the 19th century, inquiring performers began to look backward. Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940), an English musician and instrumentmaker, rediscovered the nearly forgotten world of the viol, lute and clavichord, and Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska almost singlehanded shattered the romantic tradition of performing Bach on the piano. "You play Bach your way," she once told a colleague, "and I'll play...