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

[N. Meisner]

Hope to be there!!! Read several of his tomes and his writing style 
suggests a forcefully entertaining person.

Quick news: sent the invite via Pony Express yesterday. Cost 1100 roubles, 
very close to what you said. (Why do FedEx and DHL charge twice as much?). 
Will take two working days from Monday, but not sure if that includes 
Monday, so expect letter on Wednesday or Thursday. You can follow progress 
on the Pony Express website, but you will need a reference number and I'll 
give you that tomorrow, if I can find it on the microscopic print of the 
form. Sorry about garbled style of this email ... but it's very late and I 
need to go shut my eyes.

Will write again tomorrow evening. (My eyes are now shut.) Also asked 
Zhenia about small flat or room and she sounded as though she might know of 
possibilities. But she asked if you were hell-bent on being in the centre. 
Probably best if I give you her email and you can correspond directly.

Again - you'll have to wait tomorrow - ha! 

Nadine

On Nov 6 2009, Muireann Maguire wrote:

>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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