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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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One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Franz Kafka

Richard Taruskin

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:
  1. The Oxford History of Western Music (2005)
  2. Text and act (1995)
  3. Defining Russia Musically (1997)

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