Recapturing Moral Vision (cont’d)
As readers of this blog know, I was recently amazed to find myself talking on the radio for 20 minutes about my new book “Moral Fire” in...
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josephirvinghorowi
Aug 26, 20122 min read
Jon Stewart and Moral Fire
As I have occasion to remark in my new book Moral Fire, moral passion is a phenomenon little glimpsed in public life nowadays, unless you...
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josephirvinghorowi
Aug 5, 20121 min read
In Praise of Moral Fire
My new book Moral Fire is praised in today’s Boston Globe by Jeremy Eichler for its “elegant and warmly sympathetic” portrait of Henry...
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josephirvinghorowi
Jul 1, 20121 min read
Mixing Art and Music (cont’d): Mixing Food and Music
Now that the always enterprising Anne Midgette has posted my blog objecting to live Bach cello suites imposed on visitors to the Corcoran...
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josephirvinghorowi
Jun 20, 20122 min read
Mixing Art and Music — An Open Letter to the Corcoran Gallery
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE CORCORAN GALLERY Dear Mr. Bollerer: As someone who writes frequently about the Gilded Age, I’ve...
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josephirvinghorowi
Jun 10, 20122 min read
Teaching Music Across the Curriculum
Cross-disciplinary education is in fashion right now, but I have the impression it’s more honored in the breach than the observance, at...
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josephirvinghorowi
May 20, 20127 min read
A Message for Young Musicians and Old Orchestras
I was recently entrusted with delivering the graduation address for the School of Music at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana....
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josephirvinghorowi
Apr 22, 20121 min read
“Moral Fire”
I have a new book, just published: Moral Fire: Musical Portraits from America’s Fin-de-Siecle. Here’s a sampling: “If the Met’s screaming...
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josephirvinghorowi
Apr 18, 20126 min read
San Francisco’s American Mavericks
I review the San Francisco Symphony’s remarkable “American Mavericks” festival in the current Times Literary Supplement (UK) as follows:...
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josephirvinghorowi
Apr 4, 20123 min read
Schubert Uncorked
For a variety of reasons, raw spontaneity is less common at symphonic performances nowadays than in the nineteenth century and before. In...
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josephirvinghorowi
Apr 1, 20122 min read
Orchestral Summitry
The recent “Orchestral Summit” at the University of Michigan was a labor of love on the part of Mark Clague of the university’s...
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josephirvinghorowi
Mar 19, 20122 min read
How Orchestras Can “Plug a Hole in the Curriculum”
“Music Unwound,” the $300,000 NEH initiative funding a consortium of adventurous orchestras, has two basic components. The first is...
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josephirvinghorowi
Feb 29, 20121 min read
Horowitz on Horowitz on Horowitz (continued)
Readers of this blog will be aware of an ongoing state of war with my son, Bernie, whose adoration of Vladimir Horowitz I do not share....
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josephirvinghorowi
Feb 22, 20123 min read
North Carolina’s State-Wide Symphony
Having just spent a week taking part in a “Dvorak and America” festival presented by the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, I think I’ve...
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josephirvinghorowi
Feb 20, 20126 min read
Porgy and Bess Writ Small
The current Times Literary Supplement (UK) publishes my review of Broadway’s new Porgy and Bess — informed by a book I’m writing (for W....
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josephirvinghorowi
Dec 8, 20112 min read
Restoring the drama to El Amor Brujo
The two best-known scores by Manuel de Falla – El Amor Brujo and The Three-Cornered Hat – began as stage works. Today, however, we know...
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josephirvinghorowi
Nov 29, 20114 min read
Siegfried at the Met
The current Times Literary Supplement (UK) includes my review of Fabio Luisi conducting SIegfried and Don Giovanni at the Met, as...
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josephirvinghorowi
Nov 28, 20114 min read
Presenting Mahler’s Marriage
The most vivid writings about composers’ lives, I find, are the ones they produce themselves: letters, articles, books. A case in point...
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josephirvinghorowi
Nov 8, 20114 min read
Ives the Man
The central premise of Post-Classical Ensemble’s three-day “Ives Project” at the Strathmore Music Center last week was that Charles Ives...
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josephirvinghorowi
Sep 5, 20113 min read
Gershwin Impurities
The American Repertory Theatre’s new Porgy and Bess, with its claims that Gershwin’s is a crippled opera that needs fixing, is...
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