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...past year and a half. Nearly half of the permanent faculty members were lost death and retirement. The retirement of Archibald T. "Dee" Davison, '06, the grand old man of the department, was followed in quick succession by the deaths of Professors Stephen D. Tuttle and Otto J. Gombosi. Then, during the past term, Assistant Professor Alan D. Sapp has been sidelined by illness. All this has been resulted in the dropping of several courses in an already none too large offering, substituting of instructors for professors, and doubling up in courses and tutorial...
Professor Otto J. Gombosi, professor of Music, died of a heart attack at his home yesterday. Professor Gombosi, who had been with Harvard since 1952, was one of the foremost authorities in medieval and Renaissance music...
Born in Hungary, he came to the United States in 1939. He taught at the University of Washington and the University of Chicago before coming here. Professor Gombosi had written books on music from ancient Greece to modern times...
August Wenzinger, Horatio Appleton Lamb Lecturer on Music this year, will perform on the viola da gamba. Mrs. Anne Gombosi, former member of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis will accompany him on her violin, and Mclville Smith, director of the Longy School of Music, will play the harpsichord...
...Byrd Mass was followed by two suites for strings and continue, one by the 17th century English composer John Jenkins and the other by Francois Couperin. The pleasing, simply-constructed movements of the Jenkins were given a graceful rendition by Anne Gombosi, violin; August Wenzinger, a visiting lecturer from Switzerland; Stephen McGhee, viola da gamba and John Dvison, harpsichord. But the Couperin is quite a notch above the Jenkins musically, and Mr. Wenzinger's virtuoso performance further augmented the excellent impression it made. Because of the elaborate ornamental conventions of the period in which it was written, a great part...