Word: musicologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Afro-Am is currently conducting a search to fill either a senior or junior slot in the social sciences, Huggins says. And Sollors has said that a joint appointment is in the works with the Music Department to replace the retired ethno-musicologist Eileen J. Southern...
...Garnier's Paris Opera, conceived in a burst of Second Empire glory and opened in a blaze of Third Republic splendor, is the world's most opulent opera house. The Paris Opera (Vendome; 187 pages; $75), with text by Martine Kahane, curator of the Opera's library-museum, and musicologist Thierry Beauvert, succinctly recounts the history of the fabled hall, but the real tour d'horizon is provided by Jacques Moatti's photographs, which take the reader from the subterranean lake beneath the mammoth building, where the Phantom of the Opera was said to roam, to the gilded statue...
Sollors says the agenda for Harvard's Afro-Am Department is straightforward for the next few years: to hire a musicologist to replace Eileen Southern, professor of music emeritus, to find social scientists and finally, to strengthen the study of history and literature...
...this amiable study of a man and his epoch, Musicologist Edward Jablonski shows why the queries persist on the 50th anniversary of Gershwin's death. George's father, Leatherworker Morris Gershovitz, thought Ira, the oldest of his four children, was the most talented -- until George, nearly two years younger, appropriated the keyboard with an amalgam of brashness and genius. The boy abandoned school at 15 and quickly rose from Manhattan streets to the clamorous offices of song publishers. Sometimes his talent outstripped his ambition. When he auditioned for a job with Irving Berlin, the composer turned him down with some...
...with Porter's name on it and found songs by him I didn't even know had existed." Further burrowing yielded the Holy Grail of show-tune scholarship: more than 175 unpublished Kern songs. "In sheer numbers and quality it's extraordinary," says H. Wiley Hitchcock, a Brooklyn College musicologist. "It's like finding Leonardo's original sketchbooks...