Joe Horowitz
What Might the Kennedy Center Best Become?
Today’s “Arts Fuse” publishes my latest thoughts about the Kennedy Center: With the fate of the Kennedy Center for the
Why Gustav Mahler’s New York Career Was a “Failure”
The critic Henry Krehbiel notoriously called Gustav Mahler’s New York career a failure, undone by “foolishness and naivete.” Most accounts
“What if JFK had not been assassinated? What would have been the impact on...
The USC Center on Public Diplomacy has published an interview with me pondering the implications of my study of the
“America’s Greatest Opera Boss Has Died”
Norman Lebrecht’s obituary notice for Speight Jenkins, which ran today, is titled “America’s Greatest Opera Boss Has Died.” I couldn’t
Who Was Alma Mahler?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7bhDcSZYZUs&version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent Esther van Zyl as Alma Mahler in my play “The Marriage,” as performed at Colorado Mahlerfest two
The Boston Symphony’s Castigated Blueprint Makes Sense
Today’s online “Arts Fuse” carries a piece of mine commenting yet again on the Boston Symphony firestorm, which pits enraged musicians against the management and board – and turns Andris Nelsons, the outgoing music director, in a martyr. Excerpts follow. The read the whole thing, click here. A 14-page “State
“Are We Rotting Our Brains? Is This the End of Classical Music?”
I know the conductor Thomas Fortner, now based in Berlin, from his years as assistant conductor of the remarkable South Dakota Symphony. Thomas recently posted a 70-minute podcast posing earnest questions about the state of classical music. Excerpts follow. JH (1:55): People are not attentive to the arts. People don’t
“Pre-Eminent among the American Newspaper Critics of his Generation”
My review of “Defending Music: Michael Steinberg at the ‘Boston Globe’ — 1964-1976” (Oxford University Press) is today published online by “The American Scholar.” The kicker, at the end, reads: “Michael Steinberg was never intended to make a career writing concert reviews. He was ever courageously drawn to what would
“The Marriage” – Enacting Gustav Mahler’s Demise and Alma’s Indecision
My play The Marriage: The Mahlers in New York was just premiered (as a work-in-progress) at the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor. It’s my good fortune to be working with a terrific actress and director: Esther van Zyl and Jack Tamburri. We next produce the play (this time with lighting design)
Furtwängler in Wartime – Reflections on Ian Buruma’s “Stay Alive”
Boston’s “Arts Fuse” today carries my thoughts on “Furtwängler in Wartime” occasioned by Ian Buruma’s new book “Stay Alive.” Excerpts follow. You can read the whole thing here. One learns from Ian Buruma’s Stay Alive: Berlin 1939-45 – an absorbing study of what it was like to live in the German
