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© 2017, V&R unipress GmbH, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847107217 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737007214 was still OK, even in his old age. He then passed away in 1941. I just remember,ingeneral,thathewasapersonaboutwhosewelfaremyfather wasquite concerned.That’s thedegreeofmyknowledge. PVB: Would there have been others at that immediate moment, of Adler’s acquaintances, colleagues, students in the States, withwhomhemight haveshareda similar concern? BN: Who were also concerned about Adler? I suppose so. I was looking throughthelistof8migr8sinDrivenintoParadise.Whiletherewereabout 146 musicologists who had to immigrate from Germany and Central Europe, there reallyweren’t somany, as far as Icantell,whoweredirect students of Adler. Adler, after all, prettymuch stopped teaching in the 1930s.Hewrites inhisautobiography8 thathewasveryconcernedabout hissuccessionin1927.So,hemusthaveretiredbythen.In1927,hewould havebeen72yearsoldalready.Inthe1930s,orinthe1920s,whenpeopleI mighthaveknownwerestudents,hewasnolonger there.Butpeoplewho went to theUniversity ofVienna surelywere aware of his presence.He livedthere for therestofhis life.Hewasstillwriting,obviously,because hewrote his autobiography at the age of 80. I don’t knowwhethermy fatherreallyhadmuchtodowiththepeoplewhoknewAdlerorwhether theytalkedmuchaboutthat.Idoknowthattherewerepeoplewithwhom myfatherwas involvedintheUnitedStateswhohadaconnection.These includedDraganPlamenac(1895–1983),althoughIdon’tthinkmyfather knewPlamenacverywell.DuringthewartheywerebothlivingintheNew Yorkarea:my father inPrinceton,Plamenac inNewYork. GlenHaydonandAmericanMusicological Studies BN: Therewere twoAmericanswho had studiedwithAdler, or at least in Adler’s department. One was Glen Haydon9 (1896–1965), at the Uni- versity of North Carolina. The other was Carleton Sprague Smith10 (1905–1994).My fatherwasfairlyclosetoCarletonSpragueSmith.11He 8 GuidoAdler:WollenundWirken.AusdemLebeneinesMusikhistorikers.Wien:Universal- Edition1935. 9 GlenHaydonwas anAmericanmusicologist who founded the first American program in musicologyatapublicuniversity, theUniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHill.Hismost influentialwritingswere studies of the theory andmethods ofmusicology as anacademic discipline. 10 CarletonSpragueSmithwasanAmericanmusicologistwhospecializedonthemusicofLatin America, especially Brazil.He taught atNewYorkUniversity andalsoheld leadershippo- sitions inUSgovernmentagenciesandculturalorganizations, among themLincolnCenter inNewYorkCity. 11 Smith was best known for his leadership of theMusic Division of the New York Public PhilipV.Bohlman/BrunoNettl208 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY-NC-ND 4.0