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Former Ohio Professor And Electronic Music Pioneer Passes Away

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published September 4, 2017 at 5:27 AM EDT
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A former Kent State University professor and a pioneer of electronic music has died.  Halim El-Dabh passed away over the weekend at the age of 96.  The Egyptian-born musicologist manipulated recordings of ancient ceremonies to help launch the art of synthesized music in the early 1940s.  He taught at Kent State from 1969 to 2012.

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