Mark Stryker Posted July 2, 2022 Report Share Posted July 2, 2022 A giant has passed. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/arts/music/richard-taruskin-dead.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted July 2, 2022 Report Share Posted July 2, 2022 A pest has passed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted July 2, 2022 Report Share Posted July 2, 2022 10 minutes ago, Larry Kart said: A pest has passed. I was about to say, can you please expound on that? But then I read the obit. No explanation necessary! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.D. Posted July 2, 2022 Report Share Posted July 2, 2022 RIP with due respect. But his writing always had a really strong "fingernails on a blackboard" effect on me, so I never read much of his work. A number of starts, but always failed to finish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riddlemay Posted July 2, 2022 Report Share Posted July 2, 2022 4 hours ago, Larry Kart said: A pest has passed. Just curious why you say that. I've never read him, and wasn't even aware of him until reading his obituary this morning, but his basic tenets as I understand them--that no music can be reduced simply to the notes, and that making music speak to the audience for whom it is played is more important than recreating the music as it would have been performed for the audience of its time ("historically informed performance")--are sound enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HutchFan Posted July 2, 2022 Report Share Posted July 2, 2022 (edited) riddlemay - Taruskin was sorta like Stanley Crouch. Always argumentative. Never willing to consider that others might have a different perspective. Always absolutely certain -- even when certainty was impossible. Even when I agreed with him -- and he was incredibly knowledgeable -- he turned me off. It wasn't what he said that made him a pest; it's the way that he said it. Edited July 2, 2022 by HutchFan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.D. Posted July 2, 2022 Report Share Posted July 2, 2022 17 minutes ago, HutchFan said: riddlemay - Taruskin was sorta like Stanley Crouch. Always argumentative. Never willing to consider that others might have a different perspective. Always absolutely certain -- even when certainty was impossible. Even when I agreed with him -- and he was incredibly knowledgeable -- he turned me off. It wasn't what he said that made him a pest; it's the way that he said it. Well said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjzee Posted July 2, 2022 Report Share Posted July 2, 2022 https://dunnandbrown.com/richard-taruskin-vigorously-polemical-musicologist-dies-at-77/ For those who can't open the Times article, this appears to be the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Friedman Posted July 2, 2022 Report Share Posted July 2, 2022 Was unfamiliar with him until reading the obit in the NY Times. Based upon his views, as referred to in the obit, it seems that I would tend to agree with him on many of his positions on music. It seems to made a lot of people angry in the way he interacted with people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgcim Posted July 3, 2022 Report Share Posted July 3, 2022 6 hours ago, mjzee said: https://dunnandbrown.com/richard-taruskin-vigorously-polemical-musicologist-dies-at-77/ For those who can't open the Times article, this appears to be the same thing. Thanks for the link! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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