Richard Taruskin
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The world-renowned musicologist Richard Taruskin has devoted much of his career to helping listeners appreciate Russian and Soviet music in new and sometimes controversial ways. Defining Russia Musically represents one of his landmark achievements: here Taruskin uses music, together with history and politics, to illustrate the many ways in which Russian national identity has been constructed, both from within Russia and from the Western perspective....
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"Richard Taruskin – 2017 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Arts and Philosophy, Prize Field: Music, Inamori Foundation" Richard Taruskin (1945–2022) was professor emeritus of music at the University of California, Berkeley, and a regular contributor to the New Republic, the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and Opera News. His books include Defining Russia Musically (Princeton), Opera and Drama in Russia, and Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions....
