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Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.

David Tudor

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David Tudor
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: January 20
Died: 1996
Died: August 13
Composer
Organist
Pedagogue
Pianist
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
David Eugene Tudor
Made
Loudspeakers
Disposable
Destroyed

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