Complex sentence: A scholar of pre-Colombian era music, she was an early adopter of Native American musical instruments among those trained in European classical music and a pioneer in the genre now known as exotica.
Split into simpler sentences: A scholar of pre-Colombian era music, she was an early adopter of Native American musical instruments among those trained in European classical music. Her melding of ancient and contemporary styles of American music ranks Waldo among the pioneers in the genre now known as exotica.