Word: tovey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jacket design of the album is calculated to appeal to the believer in ghosts and seances and such. The front shows a sort of slimy, ectoplasmic quill pen writing music, and the back has a "quote" from Sir Donald Tovey about composers who "have shuffled off these mortal coils." This remarkably florid pseudo-Shakesperianism was allegedly transmitted last January by Sir Donald from beyond the grave. Tovey was never a great stylist, but even he never sank that...
...most outspoken faith in Mrs. Brown has been voiced by Sir Donald Tovey, one of England's most respected musicologists. Asked by Philips to write a liner note for Mrs. Brown's record, Sir Donald bluntly declared that the composers are real: "It is the implications relevant to this phenomenon that we hope will stimulate sensible and sensitive interest and stir many who are intelligent and impartial to consider and explore the unknown of man's mind and psyche." Sir Donald dictated his liner notes to Rosemary Brown on January 1, 1970; he died...