Word: musicologist
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...brothers and sister stared wide-eyed at the hand-colored slides shown by missionaries at their local meetings. And in 1913, when the whole school was talking about how Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the famed organist and musicologist, theologian and physician, had turned his back on Europe's honors to establish a jungle mission, Emma's heart took fire...
...economies through postwar convalescence. At week's end Marshall flew to Washington, entered Walter Reed Hospital for rest and treatment. From Oslo also came the announcement that Dr. Albert Schweitzer, 78, had won the held-over 1952 Peace Prize ($33.149) for forsaking fame as a philosopher, theologian and musicologist to spend the past 40 years of his life discharging "the greatest unpaid debt of Western civilization" —as a medical missionary in French Equatorial Africa...
Some men like Professor Morse combine interests in both departments of the school. Morse counts a musicologist at the Institute among his closest friends, and on one occasion of Robert Frost's birthday, wrote an article relating mathematics and the arts...
Kinsey's only concession to the social amenities is to hold Sunday-evening record recitals. But he is no relaxed amateur. He is a relentless musicologist, and his soirees are an exacting ritual. He plans a carefully balanced program and gathers material for commentary. Guests arrive on the stroke of 8 and are seated in a hieratic U pattern with the high-fidelity player and the master's chair at the open end of the U. All talk is hushed as Kinsey picks up the first record and announces why he thinks it worth playing. The ladies...
John Vincent: Quartet No. 1 (American Art Quartet; Contemporary). A remarkably cheerful and melodious score, written in 1936 by a gifted but little-known California composer and musicologist. Its four movements are all composed in Greek modes, in a smooth, facile style. Composer Vincent's direction seems apparent in this quartet, but he never quite seems to arrive at a destination...