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A highly specialized kind of musical authorship has become the vocation of William Zeitung '43, whose signed articles or "liners" appear on the jackets of hundreds of long-play records. His descriptive essays, adding to the understanding and appreciation of the music recorded, have appeared on RCA, Victor, Columbia, Decca, Capitol, and Angel records, to mention only a few, and they cover the musical field from the currently popular album, "The Glen Miller Story," to the records of Toscanini or the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Zeitung, himself a non-performing musician, has written notes for such famous record soloists as the violinist Isaac Stern and the pianist Alexander Brailowski. No musical pedant, this enthusiastic New Yorker has been interested in all types of music from jazz to spirituals and has made this music popular with thousands.

After leaving Dartmouth, Zeitung received his M.A. degree from Columbia University and then went to Paris to study music and art at the Sorbonne, where he received his Ph.D. degree.