Word: musicologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Musicologist Carleton Smith, radio commentator at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium concerts...
Married. John Macrae, 72, longtime president of E. P. Dutton & Co. (books), famed for his white whiskers, pink shirts, and garrulous letters to the trade; and comely Opal Wheeler, fortyish, musicologist and schoolmistress; he for the second time, she for the first time; in Rosebank, Staten Island...
Haydn: Symphony No. 80 in D Minor and Symphony No. 67 in F Major (Orchestra of the New Friends of Music, Fritz Stiedry conducting; Victor: One vol., 9 sides). Of the five unpublished Haydn symphonies that Musicologist Alfred Einstein dug out of European libraries last summer (TIME, March 6), two are here recorded for the first time. Both are good-vintage Haydn, both rather coarsely and pedantically performed...
Another big step in Haydn scholarship was taken in Manhattan last week when the New Friends of Music (no kin to the Vienna Friends) played the first of five editions by Musicologist Alfred Einstein (distant kin to Physicist Albert Einstein) of "new" symphonies probably never played since Papa Haydn conducted them for the Esterhazys a century and a half ago: Nos. 67, 71, 77, 80, 87. Having examined all the great Haydn collections, except the Esterhazys', Dr. Einstein had made diligent revisions, here deleting a spurious passage put in by an overenthusiastic conductor, there restoring an eccentric "lost" bagpipe...
...Schrade, noted musicologist formerly of the University of Ronn will give two free public lectures at Harvard, one tomorrow and another Friday. "The Music of Handel" will be Dr. Schrade's topic in a lecture at the Germante Museum tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Friday night he will lecture on "England's influence upon the Musical History of Europe" at the Harvard Music Building at 8:15 o'clock...