How to win a Stalin Prize: Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet
In this lecture combined with music, Dr Taruskin will focus on Shostakovich’s popular Piano Quintet – supported by the University of Oxford’s quartet in residence. Musicologist, critic, historian and author of landmark study “The Oxford History of Western Music”, Dr Taruskin has transformed contemporary perspectives on the performance and the study of music through his convention-defying historical research and essays.
Date: 8 May 2018, 15:00 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2018)
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Speaker: Dr Richard Taruskin (2017 Laureate for Arts and Philosophy)
Organising department: Blavatnik School of Government
Organiser contact email address: kyoto@bsg.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Kyoto Prize at Oxford
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Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.kyotoprize.ox.ac.uk/events/public-lecture-dr-richard-taruskin-how-win-stalin-prize-shostakovichs-piano-quintet
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Lucy Forsyth