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...department boasts men like Walter H. Piston and Thompson, two of the top four or five composers in the country, and Otto J. Gombosi and Stephen D. Tuttle, two of the nation's top musicologists...
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...Otto J. Gombosi, professor of Music, yesterday denied that there is anything to get excited about in this statement. "There is no need for those of us who still value antiquarianism and even the snob appeal of a 'gentleman's education' to get hot under the collar. Of course, a world without snobs would be terribly lonely for us, and the teaching of the arts in General Education would find itself on the old spot of 'ain't it lovely.' I am sure this is not what Conant had in mind...
Students of music history were especially interested in the performance of a Mass by Guillaume de Machaut, fourteenth century French composer. The edition which was used is a new one by Otto Gombosi, Professor of Music, and the performing group of eight singers and four wind players approximated the conditions which musicologists believe prevailed when the Mass was first performed...
...authority on the music of Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Gombosi came to the United States from his native Hungary in 1939. He served as professor of Music at the University of Washington until 1946, when he became professor of Music at the University of Chicago...