Invitation to Professor Richard Taruskin's Lecture at the University of Cambridge

[Muireann Maguire]

Dear all,

I am posting the following lecture notice on behalf of the Slavonic
Department at the University of Cambridge. Please address any queries to Mrs
Masha Sutton at slavon at hermes.cam.ac.uk

The Sixth Dame Elizabeth Hill Memorial Lecture (Department of Slavonic
Studies, University of Cambridge)

26th November, 5:15pm at The Riley Auditorium, Gillespie Centre, Clare
College Memorial Court

Professor Richard Taruskin (University of California, Berkeley), "Suicide
Notes, Faked Memoirs, Toasts to Killers: The Wonderful World of Russian Music"

EVERYONE IS INVITED TO A DRINKS RECEPTION AFTER THE LECTURE.

Richard Taruskin (University of California, Berkeley) is a musicologist,
music historian, and critic who has written about the theory of performance,
Russian music, fifteenth-century music, twentieth-century music,
nationalism, the theory of modernism, and analysis. As a choral conductor he
directed the Columbia University Collegium Musicum. He played the viol with
the Aulos Ensemble from the late seventies to the late eighties. He received
various awards for his scholarship, including the Noah Greenberg Prize
(1978) from the American Musicological Society, the Alfred Einstein Award
(1980), the Dent Medal (1987), the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award (1988) and the
1997 and 2006 Kinkeldey Prizes from the American Musicological Society. He
has also written extensively for lay readers, including numerous articles in
The New York Times. His book on Igor Stravinsky shows that the composer drew
on much more Russian folk material than has previously been recognized, and
analyzes the historical trends that caused Stravinsky not to be forthcoming
about some of these borrowings. Taruskin has also been an influential critic
of the premises of the "early-music" movement in classical-music
performance; much of his writing has been collected in his book Text and Act.

Greenberg Prize, 1978; Alfred Einstein Award, 1980; Dent Medal, 1987;
Kinkeldey Prize 1997. Member American Philosophical Society.

PUBLICATIONS: The Oxford History of Western Music, 6 volumes, 2005; Music in
the Western World: A History in Documents; Text and Act; Stravinsky and the
Russian Tradition; Musorgsky: Eight Essays and an Epilogue; Defining Russia
Musically.

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