{"id":971,"date":"2008-05-15T12:22:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T19:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=971"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:55:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:55:41","slug":"taruskin-to-speak-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/15\/taruskin-to-speak-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"taruskin to speak tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nImage courtesy Stanford University.<\/em><\/p>\n

This via David Stabler<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Leading music scholar and sometime iconoclast Richard Taruskin will speak tonight at 6:30 at the Benson Hotel.<\/p>\n

He’s written, edited, or co-written some of the seminal books on Western music, including The Oxford History of Western Music<\/em>,\u00c2\u00a0 Music in the Western World: A History in Documents<\/em>, Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance<\/em>, and Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Should you be so inclined, you can buy the here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Image courtesy Stanford University. This via David Stabler. Leading music scholar and sometime iconoclast Richard Taruskin will speak tonight at 6:30 at the Benson Hotel. He’s written, edited, or co-written some of the seminal books on Western music, including The Oxford History of Western Music,\u00c2\u00a0 Music in the Western World: A History in Documents, Text […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[148,115],"tags":[3662,864],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-music","tag-portland","tag-richard-taruskin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-fF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":509,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/31\/taruskin-writes-bloggers-respond\/","url_meta":{"origin":971,"position":0},"title":"taruskin writes – bloggers respond","author":"Charles Noble","date":"October 31, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Richard Taruskin, quite possibly the most formidable writer on music living today (or at least the most likely to open a can of whup-ass) wrote a 12,000 word \"review\" in the New Republic of three books on the current state of classical music. 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