Amid Hard Work and Favourable Circumstances: Looking at the Bigger Picture in Musicology. Interview with Professor Richard Taruskin
Amid Hard Work and Favourable Circumstances: Looking at the Bigger Picture in Musicology. Interview with Professor Richard Taruskin

Summary/Abstract: The Musics of Power. Music and Musicians in Totalitarian Regimes in 20th Century Europe – a subject that occupies an increasingly large space in the picture of concerns of international musicology* – was debated in Bucharest, during an international conference organized by the National University of Music and the New Europe College on October 18-19, 2018.** The guest of honour of the event, who gave, on October 19, a lecture entitled Prokofieff ’s Problems... and Ours, was the renowned American musicologist Richard Taruskin – Emeritus Professor at the University of California- Berkeley – who came to Romania for the first time on this occasion. Richard Taruskin is the author of an impressive number of essays and volumes on Russian music, and is perhaps the last to have successfully undertaken and accomplished the mission of rewriting, independently, a complete History of Western Music. I had the privilege of talking to Professor Richard Taruskin at the end of the Festive Meeting at which he was offered the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the National University of Music in Bucharest.*

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