Rosamond 'Corky' McGuinness (4 December 1929 – 16 March 2012, London) was an American music historian.
She came from a Jewish family, her father, Howard Cohan being a dentist, and her mother Adelaide Zeigler being a music teacher.
However the prospects of a career as a concert pianist disappeared after an eye disease left her partially blind in 1950.
[1] McGuiness was a lecturer at Royal Holloway College from 1969 and became a Professor of Music History there.
In February 1991 she made an extended appearance on the Channel 4 discussion programme After Dark alongside Charlotte Davis Kasl and Father Michael Seed, among others.