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Died. Henry William Simon, 68, musicologist and vice president and executive editor of Simon & Schuster book publishers until his retirement in 1967; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A brother of the publishing firm's cofounder, Simon was noted for his knowledge of opera, authored A Treasury of Grand Opera and Festival of Opera, and maintained that "the best of grand operas are the most enduring and most popular of all stage works...
...love with Tania, whom he trained and sent to Bolivia as his advance agent. In La Paz she got a job in the presidential press office and helped arrange the secret arrival of Che and the other Cubans. Then, violating Che's orders, Tania, who was an amateur musicologist and collected tape recordings of Bolivian folk music, went to the hills to live with him. On August 31, 1967, Tania and nine men walked into a Bolivian army ambush. All but one of them were killed. An autopsy showed that...
...marvel of Rosemary Brown is not that she has created these pleasant little works, but that she has convinced so many seemingly qualified people that there is some degree of authenticity to her claims. A musicologist, Dr George Firth, and an educator, Sir George Trevelyan, have set up a fund to relieve her of the necessity of working for a living while she devotes her time to transmitting her great works, and taking extensive training in musicology. You are, of course, entirely welcome to contribute...
...Berlioz had written it. If it were not for the superlative skill and dogged determination of Conductor Colin Davis it might not have happened at all. For over a century, the French publishing house of Choudens owned the score but refused to release it. At one point, English Musicologists Cecil Gray and W.J. Turner even tried to hire the Parisian underworld to burglarize Choudens. The attempt failed. Fortunately, the Bibliotheque Nationale owned Berlioz's manuscripts. British Musicologist Hugh MacDonald began the immense job of deciphering them and in 1969, the German firm of Barenreiter was able to publish...
Much of the success of The Play of Daniel can be attributed to the efforts of the late Noah Greenberg, an American musicologist and director of the New York Pro Musica until his death. The current version of The Play of Daniel was made by Greenberg for the Pro Musica's performance at The Cloisters in New York. Although listed as an "adaptation." Greenberg's version is in fact a true re-creation. The orchestration and the distribution of vocal lines are entirely Greenberg's, for the original manuscripts of Daniel contain no more than the melodies and text. Greenberg...