Day: September 28, 2011

Front facade of Houghton Library

Voice parts still speak to us

[Thanks to Andrea Cawelti, Ward Project Music Cataloger, for contributing this post.] John Milton Ward, William Powell Mason Professor of Music emeritus at Harvard University, recently donated to Houghton a large collection of full opera scores, primarily of French origin. While cataloging a printed score of Rodolphe Kreutzer’s Jadis et aujourd’hui, I discovered nestled within…