Taruskin, Richard

Richard Taruskinis the Class of 1955 Professor of Music emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught from 1987 to 2014, after twenty-six years at Columbia University (man and boy). He is the author of"Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions", "On Russian Music", "Defining Russia Musically", and the six-volume "Oxford History of Western Music".