Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77

Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77

Author, critic, teacher and public intellectual, he was an unabashed flamethrower who challenged conventional thinking about classical music ...
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The New York Times
Detail of the black shawm players in The Engagement of St. Ursula and Prince Etherius, , c.1520 (oil on panel) by Master of Saint Auta (fl.1512-29) at the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon. Photograph: Bridgeman Images

Vicente Lusitano: Why was the first Black published composer just a footnote in histories?

A BLM placard in New York encouraged a conductor in London to discover more about this 16th-century pioneer of European classical music ...
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The Guardian
Aymeric Dupré la Tour coaches eigth-grade harpsichord student Addie Clark.

Organist and Harpsichordist Aymeric Dupré la Tour has Died, Aged 49

The French-American keyboard player Aymeric Dupré la Tour, of Niantic, Connecticut, has tragically died following a car accident. Dupré la Tour was driving on the Interstate in the early hours ...
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The Violin Channel
Some very healthy early music canaries

Some very healthy early music canaries

Most exciting, arguably, is the next generation of musicians who are taking tradition and quietly making it their own — brilliantly showcased over the past week by the London Festival ...
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The Critic
Cellist Allen Whear has died

Cellist Allen Whear has died

The baroque cellist and viola da gamba specialist passed away aged 64 on 10 February following a long battle with cancer ...
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The Strad

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