January 2008 Archives

Most recent book (compiled, edited, and translated by me):

The Letters of Arturo Toscanini. Hardbound edition: Alfred A. Knopf; paperback edition: University of Chicago Press.

Still in print:

Rubinstein: A Life. Grove Press.

Ensemble for the Romantic Century

www.freeforallattownhall.org

(These are two organizations that any music lovers in the New York area should get to know.)

More than once in recent years, I've had the experience of attending an exhilarating musical event and of reading immediately afterward about the ongoing classical music crisis: drops in attendance figures, graying audiences, demise of the recording industry, and on and on.

I am a writer, lecturer, music historian, translator, and arts administrator. Early in my career, I worked as a conductor, albeit at modest levels, for about a dozen years, and this gave me some insight into the practical side of music-making.

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