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Readers sometimes complain about all the bad news in The Crimson. Of course, we do report good news when it happens (earlier this year, for example, we endorsed and wrote much about the expected move of prominent scholar Cornel West '74 from Princeton to Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department...
...Gershwin made between 1916 and 1927, mostly of his own music. For decades the Gershwin piano rolls have largely been forgotten, known only to a handful of collectors who possessed both the rolls and the pianos upon which they could be played. Now, thanks to the enterprise of Gershwin scholar Artis Wodehouse, everyone can enjoy them: Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls (Elektra/Nonesuch) is an extraordinary, ebullient CD collection of 12 Gershwin tunes, including the famous Rhapsody in Blue...
Wodehouse's efforts have been cheered by her fellow aficionados. "The ones I've heard have a live feeling, as if Gershwin were there," says Trebor Tichenor, a ragtime pianist and scholar in St. Louis, Missouri, who owns one of the largest private collections of piano rolls in America. Agrees collector Michael Montgomery, whose archives contain 100 of the extant Gershwin rolls: "It is the most careful, scholarly, faithful, high-integrity job that has ever been done with piano rolls...
Koma B. Gandy '95, a Navy ROTC scholar, said she wants to enter active Navy service after graduation...
...between the two. "Please disavow this rape of me in your name," she asked Nat Hentoff, the syndicated columnist and hard- line defender of the First Amendment, whose last name Romano had borrowed for his fictional reviewer. (The Dworkin part Romano lifted from another First Amendment stalwart, the legal scholar Ronald Dworkin.) Hentoff complied by publishing a column angrily doing just that. "Rape also means plundering or pillaging," he wrote. "Or using brutishness to humiliate someone...