Word: musicologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF Music, by Marc Pincherle (220 pp.; Reynal; $18), is a bold undertaking by a noted French musicologist: a history of Western music from early Christian chants to the present. Like any authoritative book that covers so vast a field, it seems perfunctory at times. But the basic information is there, and great taste has gone into the selection of 240 illustrations, ranging from a loth century B.C. harpist to Jazzman Sydney Bechet...
...cows. The delegate representing the haL'-square-mile domain of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace was Monaco's commissioner general of tourism, Gabriel Olivier, who arrived with a secretary and a head cold. San Marino, a landlocked mountain peak in northeastern Italy, sent a Belgian lawyer and musicologist who also serves as San Marino's consul general to Belgium and Liechtenstein. "They couldn't spare anyone from San Marino," explained Baron von Fab-Fein, "because of the political problems there. The Communist opposition has been sentenced to ten years in jail. How ridiculous...
...music between 1685 and 1759 were annihilated except the work of Bach and Handel, the ordinary music lover would miss nothing." So wrote Edinburgh University's famed Musicologist Sir Donald Francis Tovey before World War II. and at the time many a music lover would have agreed. The baroque music of the late 17th and early 18th centuries appealed only to a few long-hair devotees, and it was the rare chamber music group that included works of Italian baroque composers...
When he was conducting his Third Symphony in Rome in 1934, Composer Sergei Prokofiev made a rare admission to a visiting musicologist. "This," said he, "is my best work, but only because The Flaming Angel is my greatest." Prokofiev had, in fact, lifted the Third Symphony almost entirely from The Flaming Angel -probably because he despaired of ever seeing his monumentally difficult opera produced. He never did: Flaming Angel had its first stage performance in Venice (TIME, Sept. 26, 1955) 2½ years after the composer's death. At Italy's Spoleto festival, which closed last week, Angel...
...week the vision glowed warmly on the stage of The Hague's Royal Theater as part of the Holland Festival. Occasion: the first complete performance since Haydn's time of his opera The World of the Moon (its original third act was lost, was recovered by U.S. Musicologist H.C. Robbins Landon...