What Matters in Music?
The musicologist Richard Taruskin has lost none of his zest for controversy.
Cursed Questions: On Music and Its Social Practices
by Richard Taruskin
December 17, 2020 issue
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Nicholas Kenyon is Managing Director of the Barbican Centre, London. He was Director of the BBC Proms and Controller of BBC Radio 3, a music critic for The New Yorker, The Times, and The Observer, and the Editor of the journal Early Music. He is the author of books on Bach, Mozart, Simon Rattle, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. (December 2020)
What Matters in Music?
The musicologist Richard Taruskin has lost none of his zest for controversy.
Cursed Questions: On Music and Its Social Practices
by Richard Taruskin
December 17, 2020 issue
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