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...said that Music 2 will be taken over by Peter Lieberson next year, a new assistant professor and composer. The department hired Lewis Luckwood, a Beethoven scholar, a few years ago partly in anticipation of Forbes's retirement, Wolff said...
...scholars, University of Arizona professor Stanley Lieberson--has already turned Harvard down, but the other three are still considering the offers--extended in the late spring. The professors are Aage B. Sorenson and Robert M. Hauser, both of the University of Wisconsin, and Stanford University professor John Meyer...
...Rosovsky were unavailable for comment yesterday, as were the three scholars still pondering the Harvard offers. Arizona's Lieberson, a specialist in minority relations refused to discuss his rejection of Harvard in favor of a decision to join the faculty at the University of California at Berkely. He said only that the decision was "more matter of personal matters than anything to do with the Harvard department...
Died. Goddard Lieberson, 66, a musician who became the immensely successful president of Columbia Records; of cancer; in Manhattan. English-born, Lieberson started out to be a Composer, but instead went to work for Columbia in 1939, quickly gaining a reputation as a trend spotter and a man who could work with musicians. He was an early promoter of the LP and of original cast albums of shows like South Pacific and My Fair Lady; he had talked CBS into backing Lady. In developing the Columbia Masterworks series of classical music, he included contemporary composers: Prokofiev, Schönberg, Bart...
Ophuls has notified Puttnam and Lieberson that he wants "no credit at all" on the aborted version of The Memory of Justice, and if they use his name he will "sue the pants off them." The backers -particularly the BBC - still may use Ophuls' name, perhaps in some nebulous phrasing like "Conceived by Marcel Ophuls." No one who has seen any of Ophuls' previous work would ever believe...