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...series of talks by the Swiss musicologist deal with the General topic "Tragedy in the Art of Music." The lecture tonight will be on "Tragedy and Music drama." The lectures are free and open to the general public...
...that he became the great emancipator for a whole generation of composers. In his fascination with primary color, with pure emotion, he resembled the impressionist painters-Cezanne perhaps, or Monet. Debussy still surprises with his strange, exotic and otherworldly sound. Studied in fresh detail-in such books as British Musicologist Edward Lockspeiser's new biography, Debussy: His Life and Mind (Vol. 1)-he still fascinates as a talented and tormented...
...Miller, who looks like an elongated ostrich and seems to be acrobattling his way through an imaginary soccer game, is a neuropathologist. Peter Cook, an unblinkingly phlegmatic penguin in tweeds, is a writer and editor. And Dudley Moore, who nestles like a pouter pigeon at the piano, is a musicologist, equally adept at organ and harpsichord...
...Schrade, a distinguished musicologist of the University of Basel, Switzerland, is the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard for 1962-63. He will give a series of public lectures during the year and will counsel with students and faculty members...
After studying the facsimile intensively and "thinking myself into Mahler's mind." Musicologist Cooke decided that he could see "the absolute coherence of the complete master plan. What I had deciphered was not a 'might-have-been' but an 'almost-is': five full-length movements in various states of textural completion, but all sufficiently coherent to add up to a magnificent Symphony in F Sharp; a symphony in two parts." Cooke's BBC version runs 65 minutes and according to his own complex figuring, the various edited parts of it are anywhere from...