{"id":236986,"date":"2025-09-18T18:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T18:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/236986\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T18:34:10","slug":"haruki-murakami-to-be-celebrated-with-an-evening-of-words-and-music-in-new-york-city-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/236986\/","title":{"rendered":"Haruki Murakami to be celebrated with an evening of words and music in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — Japanese author Haruki Murakami<\/a> will be honored this December in Manhattan with an evening of words and music. <\/p>\n

The Japan Society and The Town Hall are presenting \u201cThe Murakami Mix Tape,\u201d which will include readings from Murakami’s books and performances by jazz artist Jason Moran and others that draw from the many musical references in Murakami’s books. Murakami himself is expected to give opening remarks at the Dec. 11 event at The Town Hall, where he will receive the Japan Society Award, previously given to Yoko Ono<\/a>, Akira Kurosawa<\/a> and Hideki Matsui<\/a> among others.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaruki Murakami is one of the most singular authors on the planet,\u201d Japan Society President & CEO Joshua W. Walker said in a statement. \u201cWe are honored now to build a singular night to celebrate him in New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n

A perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize, the 76-year-old Murakami is known for such novels as \u201cIQ84,\u201d \u201cThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\u201d and \u201cNorwegian Wood,\u201d named for the Beatles song. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — Japanese author Haruki Murakami will be honored this December in Manhattan with an evening of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":236987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[127200,5229,347,171,975,405,403,5226,5225,127199,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-236986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-127200","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-nobel-prizes","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115226742855731960","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}