Reconnecting with Spanish Modernism — and The Problem of de Larrocha
The incontrovertible premise of “Beyond Flamenco: Finding Spain in Music,” recently presented at the University of Chicago, was that in...
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josephirvinghorowi
Mar 2, 20104 min read
“Copland and the Cold War” on Campus
Two months ago the Mellon Foundation awarded $1.9 million to three university-based arts presenters: the University Musical Society...
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josephirvinghorowi
Feb 21, 20103 min read
Pearl Harbor music: Weill and Schoenberg
Of the distinguished refugee composers chased to the US by Hitler, two – Kurt Weill and Arnold Schoenberg – so memorably responded to...
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josephirvinghorowi
Feb 18, 20107 min read
Liszt and Improvisation
The featured pianists in Post-Classical Ensemble’s two-day “Interpreting Liszt” festival, in collaboration with Georgetown University,...
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josephirvinghorowi
Feb 16, 20103 min read
Bernard Herrmann and Musical Topography
With the waning of modernism, and of the high value once placed on conspicuous complexity and originality, the topography of twentieth...
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josephirvinghorowi
Feb 7, 20103 min read
Visuals in the Concert Hall
Worries that classical music isn’t “visual” enough have produced concerts embellished with film, photographs, and video. Obviously, this...
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josephirvinghorowi
Feb 3, 20103 min read
Choreographing Carmen: Wheeldon vs. Mamoulian
In a recent New York Times dance column (Jan. 15), Alastair Macaulay takes Christopher Wheeldon to task for the obtuse choreography he...
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josephirvinghorowi
Feb 1, 20104 min read
Horowitz on Horowitz on Horowitz on Horowitz: A Recantation
About a year ago, my son Bernie (now 22 years old) produced a self-described “Oedipal Tirade” titled “Horowitz on Horowitz on Horowitz,”...
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josephirvinghorowi
Jan 29, 20102 min read
Why Memphis Matters to Every American Orchestra
America’s struggling orchestras face a double need with a single obvious but controversial solution. The first need is to play fewer...
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josephirvinghorowi
Jan 23, 20103 min read
Looking Beyond the Cleveland Strike
The recent Cleveland Orchestra strike has produced a flurry of commentaries about the financial woes of American orchestras and the...
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josephirvinghorowi
Jan 20, 20102 min read
Dvorak Teacher-Training
As anyone who is a parent or teacher keenly appreciates, the cultural vocabulary people of my generation (b. 1948) once took for granted...
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josephirvinghorowi
Jan 17, 20104 min read
Introductory
When a few years ago Doug McLennan invited me to write an ArtsJournal blog, I thought about it and said no. Having been born as long ago...
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josephirvinghorowi
Jun 18, 20064 min read
The Unanswered Question
When a few years ago Doug McLennan invited me to write an ArtsJournal blog, I thought about it and said no. Having been born as long ago...
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josephirvinghorowi
Jun 18, 20063 min read
Joseph Horowitz
I pursue parallel careers as a scholar/writer and concert/producer. As Executive Director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic in the 1990s, I...
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