THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (U.K.) On John Adams' Doctor Atomic - Dec 5, 2008 Wagner: Das Liebesverbot - Sept 12, 2008 The Tristan Project - May 4, 2007 The 2006 Kirov Ring - Nov 3, 2006 On Copland, Blitzstein, and Gershwin - Sep 16, 2005 The Seattle Opera Ring (2001) - Aug 24, 2001 On Richard Crawford's history of American music - Feb 9, 2001 On Busoni's Doktor Faust - Feb 2, 2001 On George Templeton Strong's diaries - July 21, 2000 On Mahler In New York - Jan 8, 1999 On Amy Beach - Nov 20, 1998 Wagner and the Jews - Aug 21, 1998

THE NEW YORK TIMES On Gershwin joining the mainstream repertoire - Oct 2, 2005 On the troubled history of the New York Philharmonic - Sept 15, 2002 Music's Heavy Hitters in Abbreviated At-Bats - Apr 11, 1999 Beethoven Eases His Grip on Yankee Morals - Aug 10, 1997

PROGRAM BOOK ESSAYS On “The American Piano” - Univ. of Maryland festival On “Chinese-American music” - Pacific Symphony ACF 2004 On Lou Harrison - Pacific Symphony ACF 2006 On Reclaiming the significance of Rachmaninoff - New Jersey Symphony/Gilmore Festival/Stresa Festival

MISCELLANEOUS On Herny Krehbiel - Journal of The Guilded Age and Progressive Era, April 2009 On Malher in New York - SAM Journal, February 2009 Dvorak and the Gilded Age: Hitching Classical Music to American Studies - The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan 11, 2008 Classical Music and American Studies: Closing the Gap - Gardner Lecture in the Humanities, University of Utah, 2007 On the state of arts journalism in the American press - Syracuse University School of Journalism Keynote Address, Sept 20, 2005 Music and the Gilded Age - Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, July 2004 On why I quit the New York Times - 2002 Review of “Otto Klemperer: His Life and Times” - The American Scholar, Spring, 1997 On Leonard Bernstein as teacher - The New York Review of Books, June 10, 1993