After graduating from Cambridge in 1954, Mr. Drew worked as a freelance music critic and as a publicist for Decca Records, for which he wrote liner notes and brochures. His first historical reclamation project was Olivier Messaien, an enthusiasm dating to his Cambridge days, for whom he made a case in several important articles.
"Historical reclamation" of Messiaen in the 1950s, when the composer was alive and well, composing and teaching, with many masterpieces ahead of him?
You were too astonished by the silliness in this sentence to notice that the NYT misspelled Messiaen as "Messaien", then you went on to misspell reclamation as "reclaimation". I guess nobody's perfect!
ReplyDeleteoh my GOD. Thank you for pointing that out. I will fix my posting.
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