Let’s reload the canon
Sep 03, 2020
2 minutes
ILLUSTRATION: MARIA CORTE MAIDAGAN
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The classical music canon, argues Tom Service , is a false construct that has only served to build a wall around a certain number of white, male composers
We like to think that the great glacier of posterity has done the work for us: the islands of the ‘greatest’
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