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The nice thing about an -ism, someone once observed, is how quickly it becomes a wasm. Some musical wasms—academic-wasm, for example, and its dependent varieties of modern-wasm and Serial-wasm—continue to linger on artifical life support, thought, and continue to threaten the increasingly fragile classical ecosystem.
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Richard Taruskin
Born:
April 2, 1945
Died:
July 1, 2022
(aged 77)
Bio:
Richard Filler Taruskin was an American musicologist and music critic who was among the leading and most prominent music historians of his generation
Known for:
The Oxford History of Western Music (2005)
Text and act (1995)
Defining Russia Musically (1997)
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