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Joe Horowitz

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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

Rediscovering Harry Burleigh — via Sidney Outlaw

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7YH7ctxiUac&feature=oembed When my wife and I heard Sidney Outlaw sing Harry Burleigh’s “Till I Wake” a few years ago,
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