Joe Horowitz
Happy Hundredth Birthday to Gunther Schuller (1925-2015)
On November 22, Gunther Schuller would have been 100 years old. It was my pleasure to contribute an encomium to
Maurice Ravel, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, and the Vanishing Authority of French Pianism
https://youtube.com/watch?v=I_nQkfhVHIk&feature=oembed In Western classical music, the iconic composers disappeared sometime midway through the twentieth century, with Dmitri Shostakovich the
“Parsifal” Then and Now — A DEI Blitz
Amfortas raises the Grail Cup (act one, scene two). Photo by Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera So protean are the operas
“Cheapening Freedom by Over-Praising It”
The journal H-Diplo Review, addressing scholars of diplomacy, foreign relations, and international history, has graciously published a little something I
Yunchan Lim and the Scent of Nostalgia
I am old enough to remember a time when famous pianists were great pianists. It is a topic I rehearse
