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Re: GG: not in _Time_
Personally, I would have added Victor Borge and Anna Russell. :-)
Seriously, the more I learn of the omissions from the Time list, the less
credibility it has for me. A list without Shoenberg, Webern, Heifetz,
Stowkowski, Rachmaninoff and so on betrays the ignorance of its compilers.
On 3 Jun 98, about Re: GG: not in _Time_, Gayle Woikey <woikey@cei.net>
had this to say:
> I wonder what happened to Jascha Heifetz? He was not only popular with
> the concert going, classical crowd, but with the movie goers of the 30's
> and 40's,
>
> as was Stoky.
<snip>
> Anyway, why were these two musicians not selected, do you think? What
> were the criteria the "judges" used? Who were the judges? Gayle.
Kris Shapar
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