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Sir William Glock At 80: A Tribute

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Extract

When He Learnt of William Glock's appointment as the BBC Controller of Music, Walter Legge wrote to his former colleague (in earlier days both men had been critics), ‘I feel as though I were a citizen of sixteenth century Wittenburg and Martin Luther had been elected Pope’. The astonishment was wellnigh universal, for up to that point Glock had seemed an outsider on the British musical scene.

Type
Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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