The Most Under-Rated Composer?
Who is the most under-rated 20th century American composer? In the wake of the month-long Bernard Herrmann festival curated by DC’s...
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josephirvinghorowi
Apr 13, 20162 min read
$1 Million for Music Unwound
The NEH Music Unwound consortium, which most recently brought Dvorak’s New World Symphony to an Indian reservation, has been re-funded by...
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josephirvinghorowi
Mar 9, 20165 min read
Dvorak on the Reservation
Sisseton, in the northeastern corner of South Dakota, sits within a Dakota Indian reservation called Sisseton Wahpeton. The population –...
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josephirvinghorowi
Mar 1, 20163 min read
Gergiev and the Vienna Philharmonic
Last Sunday afternoon’s Vienna Philharmonic concert at Carnegie Hall began with a Valery Gergiev moment. Mounting the podium, he turned...
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josephirvinghorowi
Feb 23, 20164 min read
What Texas City is a National Cultural Showcase?
For the past decade I have enjoyed the privilege of regularly collaborating in “Dvorak and America” festivals with Kevin Deas, one of the...
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josephirvinghorowi
Feb 12, 20164 min read
Celebrating Bernard Herrmann
A towering figure in twentieth century American music, Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975) has long been pigeon-holed as a “Hollywood composer.”...
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josephirvinghorowi
Nov 3, 20155 min read
American Music — An Alternative Narrative
Bernard Herrmann, whose film credits include Psycho, Citizen Kane, Vertigo, and (his most Romantically charged score) The Ghost and Mrs....
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josephirvinghorowi
Oct 29, 20153 min read
The Real Vladimir Horowitz
Sony’s new 50-CD compilation, “Vladimir Horowitz: The Unreleased Live Recordings 1966-1983,” is a startling exercise in candor three...
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josephirvinghorowi
Aug 4, 20154 min read
“Music Unwound” — The NEH and the Music Education Crisis
Processing a terrific performance of Sir Edward Elgar’s Piano Quintet at this summer’s Brevard Music Festival, I found myself pondering...
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josephirvinghorowi
May 1, 20153 min read
Charles Ives and Huck Finn
“Music Unwound” is an orchestral consortium supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. It funds contextualized symphonic...
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josephirvinghorowi
Apr 22, 20154 min read
Prokofiev’s Happy Ending, and Further Thoughts on Conducting Ballet
Though the Soviets had coaxed him with prospective commissions and performances, and with promises that he could continue to travel...
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josephirvinghorowi
Jan 22, 20152 min read
What Are Ballet Conductors For?
Gergiev’s Swan Lake is a distinguished musical achievement, but his Cinderella is something else: unique and unforgettable. His St....
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josephirvinghorowi
Nov 9, 20144 min read
Can a Music School Be Re-Invented?
My own harangues on this topic have long focused on two necessary educational opportunities: 1.It is high time that Music History be...
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josephirvinghorowi
Oct 4, 20143 min read
“The Chasm Between Doing Music and Thinking About It”
Freeman’s own career – presiding over the Eastman School, the New England Conservatory, and the Butler School of Music at the University...
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josephirvinghorowi
Sep 21, 20141 min read
On the Future of the Metropolitan Opera (continued)
To read the review, google: wall street journal affron metropolitan opera book review Also, if you were not able to access my recent Wall...
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josephirvinghorowi
Aug 8, 20141 min read
The Elephant in the Room at the Met Opera Negotiations
According to my Op-Ed in today’s Wall Street Journal, the Metropolitan Opera House — physically and metaphorically — signifies a notion...
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josephirvinghorowi
Aug 5, 201410 min read
Dvorak’s America
Earlier this summer, Ivan Fischer came to New York with his Budapest Festival Orchestra to offer two memorable concerts of music by...
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josephirvinghorowi
Jul 17, 20149 min read
Remembering Artur Bodanzky
An abundance of evidence – written and recorded – suggests that from 1885 to 1939 the world’s foremost Wagner house, judged solely by the...
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josephirvinghorowi
Jul 1, 20141 min read
Dvorak’s “Hiawatha” Symphony — Part Two
As concocted by myself and the Dvorak scholar Mike Beckerman, the Melodrama aligns text from Longfellow’s “The Song of Hiawatha” with...
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josephirvinghorowi
Jun 29, 20142 min read
Dvorak’s “Hiawatha” Symphony
Dvorak himself cited The Song of Hiawatha as a source of inspiration for his American symphony of 1893. Beckerman has closely studied...
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