A Tribute to Gerard Béhague

[...]most fundamentally, the breadth of Gerard Béhague's knowledge of the broad sweep of Latin American musics, musical traditions, composers, and repertoire was enormous-astounding and most likely without par, by any conceivable standard of measurement. Since this is my first year at the University of Texas I can only give at this time impressions and hopes concerning the development of a program in ethnomusicology. [...]this paper sustained the multi-disciplinary trajectory Professor Béhague had inaugurated in the 1973 Bossa paper, always seeking to establish relationships between Brazilian social history, class issues, and musical forms. [...]by no means least important, was that we had been provided with a pedagogical and scholarly role model: should the day come to teach our own ethnomusicological classes, one had to be prepared not just to play musical excerpts, but to explain music culture-and by Gerard Béhague's example, that called for a lifetime of commitment to the scholarly endeavor.