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Major choral music scholar, RIP

Major choral music scholar, RIP

The death has been shared of William Mahrt, professor of Medieval and Renaissance music at Stanford University and editor of the journal Sacred Music. He was 84.

William Mahrt directed the Stanford Early Music Singers and was president of the Church Music Association of America.

 

 

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