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...John Jacob Astor dazzled Manhattan's El Morocco nightclub by exhibiting Wow-wow, her Chihuahua, in a new look. Wow-wow-a male-had a diamond ring on each paw and a sapphire choker around his innocent neck...
Thirty years later, the mission was taken up by a man who had played the organ between movies at Manhattan's Capitol Theater. Jacob Maurice Coopersmith, a stubby, dedicated, bustling man with thick eyeglasses, caught the fever too. He caught it quite by accident. At Harvard, working on a Ph.D. thesis, he had trouble finding his way through Chrysander's 100 volumes of the Handel "complete" works: they had no thematic index. He decided to make one. After two years at it he had caught up with Chrysander, but had accounted for only two-thirds of Handel...
...Jacob Coopersmith's definitive edition of Handel's mighty Messiah, newly published (Carl Fischer, Inc.; $1.25), was last week greeted by U.S. music scholars a one of the most important contribution of its kind in years. The Messiah, he had found, had never been properly performed since Handel's day. Original scores and pages had been misplaced. Performers and singers had arbitrarily changed notes, keys and instrumentation to suit their own peculiarities. Handel himself, who wrote the 3½-hour-long oratorio in one 24-day burst, had reworked it several times to accommodate the talents...
Miss Albert's selections included well-known and representative folk music from all parts of the United States, in addition to such staple English ballads as 'Lord Randall." Her renditions of the western ballad, "The Cowboy Lament" and John Jacob Niles' arrangement of "I Wonder" met loud applause from her listeners...
Illustrated with a series of superb plates by Alfred Jacob Miller, Charles Bodmer, and George Catlin, "Across the Wide Missouri" is a comprehensive study that flows with the case of a good novel. Mr. Devote's excellent style makes history a pleasure. G.G.D...