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Branca, Glenn, 1948-2018

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Personal name headingBranca, Glenn, 1948-2018
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See alsoCorporate body: Static (Rock music group)
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Corporate body: Theoretical Girls (Musical group)
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Birth date1948-10-06
Death date2018-05-13
Place of birthHarrisburg (Pa.)
Place of deathManhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Profession or occupationComposers
Found inHis Symphony no. 6 [SR] p1993: container (Glenn Branca)
Antigone [VR] 1990, c1989: credits (music, Glenn Branca)
New Grove dict. of Amer. mus. (Branca, Glenn; b. 10-6-48, Harrisburg, PA; art-rock composer and performer)
New York times WWW site, viewed May 16, 2018 (in obituary published May 15: Glenn Branca; b. Glenn Gilbert Branca, Oct. 6, 1948, Harrisburg, Pa.; d. Sunday [May 13, 2018], Manhattan, aged 69; composer who began his musical life playing with influential Downtown rock bands in New York in the 1970s, but whose omnivorous musical curiosity soon led him to create a hybrid style--blending classical, rock, and avant-garde elements--that laid the foundation for much of today's genre-crossing new music)