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Keywords

Richard Taruskin, early education of; Columbia University, Brown University, American Musicological Society, Musical Lives and Times Examined (book by Richard Taruskin), Censorship, Johann Sebastian Bach, St. John Passion, John Adams, The Death of Klinghoffer, David Josephson, Critical Theory, Postmodernism, Postmodern Theory, Identity politics

Abstract

Our tribute to Richard belongs with JFK’s tribute to Thomas Jefferson sitting alone at his dining room table. Relentless in argument with intellectual opponents, impatient with pieties past and present, gentle with colleagues in need, and unstintingly generous to students and junior colleagues, he encompassed so many poles in so many worlds that it will take us lifetimes to measure his stature and accomplishments. Recalling AMS/Oakland 1990, an exchange precipitated by my search for a copy of the Norton Critical Edition of the Symphonie Fantastique, Richard's take on Theory, and his paper "Shall We Change the Subject," I try to scratch the surface.

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