Joe Horowitz
Dvorak’s Prophecy — “Essential Cultural History”
Kirkus Reviews, which previews books for booksellers, critics, and others in the know, has just previewed my forthcoming Dvorak’s Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music.
Art Tatum and the “Black Virtuoso Tradition”
On the heels of his film with Alexander Toradze (my previous blog), Behrouz Jamali has released another remarkable film essay dealing with the art of the piano: The Black Virtuoso Tradition.
Toradze’s Piano Stories
Behrouz Jamali has created the kind of film I had always hoped to see about Alexander Toradze.
Savage Beauty — Take two
Three months ago I blogged about Min Xiao-fen’s exceptional new recording, “White Lotus,” in which her pipa is mated with Rez Abbasi’s guitar. The music comes from her soundtrack to a classic Chinese silent film: “The Goddess.”
Inimitable
It is my privilege to partner a new Myrios Classics CD: Mozart’s two most important four-hand piano sonatas, importantly performed by Kirill Gerstein and...