Word: widowing
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...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 After one performance, Cooke's work was withdrawn at the insistence of Mahler's widow, but it lives on in a number of jealously guarded pirated recordings.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...
...best teachers are laryngectomees themselves, especially those who were voice-conscious before they had cancer. And among the many at Memphis, the teacher with the best record was a slight, bright-eyed grandmother of nine from Newton, Mass., Mary Doehler, 71, widow of a chain-store executive, had been an aspiring soprano in her youth and had taught children with speech problems...
...most people, the mere mention of a Viennese operetta conjures up a waltz of post-Johann Strauss composers-Franz Lehar (The Merry Widow), Oskar Straus (The Chocolate Soldier), Emmerich Kalman (Countess Maritza). But beside their names belongs another: Robert Stolz. In his long career, Stolz has written almost as many operettas as the other three combined. Now 82. Stolz is the grand old man of operetta, the sole survivor of the golden age of popular Viennese music (1910-25). At Austria's open-air amphitheater on Lake Constance last week, Old Composer Stolz was still at work. Tall...
Died. Rosemary Carr Benet, 64. widow of Poet Stephen Vincent Benet, whom she met in Paris in 1920 when he was an impecunious young Yale graduate working out his The Beginning of Wisdom, herself an author, poet and critic, who translated the works of Andre Maurois but was best known for her 1933 collaboration with her husband on A Book of Americans, a lyric history in verse; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Died. Mary Gibbs Jones, 90, widow of Texas builder (and onetime Commerce Secretary) Jesse H. Jones, who helped her husband give away his construction millions, organizing with him the $500 million Houston Endowment Inc. that helps support Rice University, while setting up scholarships in her name in 44 colleges, seminaries, and universities; of a heart attack; in Houston...