Word: musicologist
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...French chateau in 1967, the Brahms Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Major has not languished in some dark castle. For some 60 years it had been filed and forgotten in the library of the Vienna Municipal Conservatory. Six months ago Gottfried Marcus, a pianist and musicologist, happened across the manu script. This spring the work was per formed on a Viennese television culture short. "I was in the middle of rebuild ing my house, in the midst of the mess with a TV going in the corner, and I happened to hear a cellist playing the Brahms violin...
Last week, with the help of Musicologist Richard L. Crocker, who sang and played the song, and Physics Professor Robert R. Brown who built a replica of an eleven-string Sumerian lyre on which Crocker accompanied himself, Kilmer's discovery was unveiled at the university's Wheeler Auditorium. It was a short monophonous melody with a delicate Oriental redolence, much like a lullaby or love song. "The song appears to tell of love among the divinities, but we have such a limited vocabulary in Hur-rian, so far about the only words we know are father, love...
ONCE UPON A TIME, among the junior faculty of the Harvard Music Department, there was an extraordinary pianist. He was also a capable musicologist and an enthusiastic teacher, as well as a most amiable person. But under no circumstances was the ancient creed of the Department to be denied: music is to be seen, and not heard. The pianist, however extraordinary, was not given tenure...
Most fortunately for those of us who love the sound of music, Lawrence Berman has not changed his tune in the slightest. As Monday evening's concert demonstrated once again, he combines with consummate artistry the lucid insight of a musicologist, the precise execution of a virtuoso, and the upretentious sincerity of his personality, to recreate music for the piano in a very convincing...
AGGRESSIVE FAST-TALKING would-be seductress Judy Maxwell (Barbra Streisand) sets out to steal absent-minded, mild-mannered musicologist Howard Bannister (Ryan O'Neal) from hysterical rotund fiancee Eunice Burns (Madeleine Kahn). Bannister is in San Francisco in hopes of winning a $20,000 grant to study the role of igneous rocks in primitive man's music. The rival for the grant, one Hugh Simon, is the villain of the piece, plagiarist and foreigner, with an accent as unequivocally Yugoslavian as Streisand's is New Yorkese. Complications breed complications, and descent into farce takes about all of five minutes...