Word: musicologist
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...fact is, Mahler never completed his Tenth-and last week's tape was, in part at least, no more than an earnest piece of musical fiction. The tape was made from a 1960 BBC broadcast of an orchestrated version of the symphony prepared for performance by English Musicologist Deryck Cooke. After one performance, Cooke's work was withdrawn at the insistence of Mahler's widow, but it lives on in a number of jealously guarded pirated recordings. Meanwhile, Mahlerians passionately argue the ethics of completing a symphony left unfinished at the composer's death...
Thurs., June 14 Accent (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Descendants of the earliest American Negro slaves, now living on the Georgia Sea Islands, are studied. John Ciardi is host, guest is Folk Musicologist Alan Lomax...
...members include Janet Abramowicz, a painter and print-maker with a diploma from the Academia delle Belle Arti in Bologna, Italy; Marcia Allentuck, a lecturer in English literature at City College in New York, who will study British and German aesthetics and literature; and Ingrid G. Brainard, a musicologist who will prepare a study of 15th century dancing and its contribution to cultural history and musicology...
...closed corporation." As for musical judgment: "I make fun of people who claim they can recognize music. They're phonies. I could play ten records by Kreisler, Heifetz, Elman, and no one could tell them apart." Humane Chicanery. Although he is sometimes billed as a musicologist, De Koven in fact has no degree from any college. Chicago-born, son of a doctor...
...Academe has reared music in America, it nurtured the performer, the listener and the musicologist quite apart from each other. Yet now the boundaries are growing fuzzy: Harvard, whose music department has emphasized musical scholarship, draws many quite talented performers, and one can hardly distinguish the future professional from the amateur. But a nervous touchiness of the performer towards the musicologist raises the question of just what place performance holds in a scholarly institution...