Re: Harvard Faculty

Ralph Locke (rlph@uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 22:55:59 -0400 (EDT)

The Harvard Music Dept. published a book in the 1980s or early 1990s
entitled something like _Music at Harvard_. Elliot Forbes, as I recall,
was the author. It gives lots of details about who was on the faculty,
down to the names of the grad student Teaching Assistants in G. Wallace
Woodworth's legendary Music 1, as I recall. It gives relatively short
shrift to the fuller sense of the title (e.g., what and how the various
official student ensembles, i.e., ones conducted by faculty, performed
in a given year, much less what kinds of music went on elsewhere
in the College, i.e., not under the aegis of the Dept.--such as opera
performances and Broadway musicals in the various residential houses).
I know--I read the whole thing when it came out.

I don't recall there being a word in there about any separate music
faculty at Radcliffe (originally known as "the Annexe"). But that
would be consistent with the basic principle (repeated in this week's
Newsweek magazine) that Radcliffe never had faculty of its own.

Perhaps others who are now at Harvard can correct or temper some of
what I just said, which is written entirely "from memory" (my
marked-up copy of the Forbes book has migrated to a box somewhere).

Ralph Locke

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