Joe Horowitz
Bernstein and Shostakovich — A Rosetta Stone?
The new online issue of “Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs,” the newsletter of the Leonard Bernstein Office, publishes an essay of
What’s An Orchestra For? – Mulling Salonen’s Resignation and a Dispiriting San Francisco Sequel
Esa-Pekka Salonen Among my most-read blogs is “What’s An Orchestra For?” – Mulling Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Resignation from the San
Re-Encountering George Kennan — and “From the River to the Sea!”
I felt impelled to write the long essay that follows after discovering Frank Costigliola’s acclaimed new biography of George Kennan.
Remembering Leopold Stokowski
Last Friday’s “Wall Street Journal” carried my review of a new memoir by Nancy Shear: “I Knew the Man Who Knew Brahms.”
Alfred Brendel (1931-2025)
In the wake of the death of the pianist Alfred Brendel on June 16, I notice a sharp uptick in
