In Monday’s (1/20) VAN magazine, Zoë Madonna reports that Linda Shaver-Gleason, “a musicologist, mother, and myth-buster who nurtured a vibrant and curious community of music lovers and friends,” died of cancer on January 14 at a California hospice facility at age 36. “Writing on her blog, ‘Not Another Music History Cliche!,’ and standing as a pillar of classical music’s niche on Twitter, Linda elegantly deployed her encyclopedic knowledge, research skills, and quick wit to cut through common classical music anecdote-myths.” Shaver-Gleason trained as a violist and received her PhD in musicology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2016. “After her 2015 diagnosis of terminal stage IV breast cancer … she cultivated a network of music lovers and friends around the world through the blog, Twitter, her program notes, and articles.… Because she was never concerned with the precarity of academic jobs … she told the podcast ‘Are We Okay,’ she felt free to be less guarded with her opinions than other musicologists might have been… Her editor at Clemson University Press, Alison Mero, confirmed that her book [about classical music] was on track for publication in 2021 or 2022.” Shaver-Gleason leaves behind her husband, Chris Gleason, and a son.
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