(In this regard, it is especially unfortunate that the names of two of the few composers mentioned in the catalog -- Richard Rodgers and Trevor Wishart -- are misspelled).
Let's examine a few scores starting with the two composers mentioned by DeSantis.
The composers Mace mentions flourished in the first half of the 17th century, and they represented an approach to composition that was being supplanted by the Baroque style: a sorry state of affairs, in Mace's view.
In some of her best chapters the composer is hardly mentioned at all".
The Finnish composer Leevi Madetoja mentioned in 1934 that the work was virtually complete; an article by the Swedish journalist Kurt Nordfors indicated that two movements were complete and the rest sketched out.
Those who didn't die fled; many, such as Vladimir Zworykin, an inventor of early television technology, and the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, to mention just two out of scores of names, earned fame elsewhere.
Without denigrating Lord Llord-Webber or his abilities, the fact that Mr. Sondheim's songs have been sung in thousands of cabaret acts and recorded by artists like Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Lena Horne and Cleo Laine might indicate that they are not only hummable-mummable, but likely to endure as long as the works of any of the composers (Verdi included) mentioned in Mr. Walsh's article.
I was most looking forward to hearing the piece by Avner Dorman, the composer I would have mentioned if someone asked me to name an Israeli composer.
The least accurate prediction rates were found for the tasks of distinguishing Haydn vs. Mozart, and Beethoven vs. Chopin, consistent with the similarities in style between the mentioned composers.
"I can't mention the composer because I don't want anybody to do it before we do it," Bennett admitted.
