Did Kurt Weill “Look Back”?
My favorite recording of any Kurt Weill song – as I have occasion to remark at the close of my recent NPR documentary on Weill’s...
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josephirvinghorowi
Sep 6, 20223 min read
Kurt Weill’s Immigrant Odyssey on NPR
Kurt Weill, a refugee from Nazi Germany, turned himself into one of Broadway’s leading composers – an amazing feat of assimilation. After...
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josephirvinghorowi
Jul 5, 20223 min read
Mocking Freedom? What To Do With the “Star-Spangled Banner”
My July 4 “More than Music” special for National Public Radio seems to me the hottest radio show I’ve ever managed to produce. The topic...
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josephirvinghorowi
May 31, 20223 min read
“How I Wish We Had Something Like That Today”
Fill in the blanks: “This was performed and broadcast to millions of people. And something that should resonate with all of us today is...
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josephirvinghorowi
May 24, 20223 min read
What Museums Can Do and Orchestras Cannot Do
Winslow Homer: “Lost in the Grand Banks” I keenly anticipated the Metropolitan Museum’s current Winslow Homer retrospective. Titled...
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josephirvinghorowi
May 16, 20223 min read
Remembering Lexo
When I filed my eulogy for Alexander Toradze, one of the emails I received was from David Hyslop. The former CEO of the Minnesota...
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josephirvinghorowi
May 12, 20228 min read
Alexander Toradze 1952-2022
The pianist Alexander Toradze, who died yesterday of heart failure at the age of 69, was much more than a friend. Lexo enjoyed telling...
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josephirvinghorowi
Apr 14, 20223 min read
Silvestre Revueltas, Arthur Farwell, and the “New Paradigm”
Every once in a while a review comes along that eloquently affirms the convictions inspiring a book or recording – even though the...
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josephirvinghorowi
Apr 11, 20222 min read
The Brevard Project — A Call to Action
I frame my book Dvorak’s Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music as a call to action. It ends: “If American classical music...
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josephirvinghorowi
Apr 2, 20223 min read
Marian Anderson, Soundbites, and “Dvorak’s Prophecy”
The Conclusion to my book-in-progress When the Arts Mattered: An Exhortation begins: “No viewer could possibly glean the hypnotic impact...
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josephirvinghorowi
Mar 14, 20222 min read
Revueltas and Social Justice on NPR
At the top of today’s 50-minute National Public Radio feature on Silvestre Revueltas – the fourth radio documentary I’ve produced for the...
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josephirvinghorowi
Feb 24, 20223 min read
The Russian Stravinsky
What happened to Stravinsky in the West? What to make of his “neo-classicism”? These are questions I’ve many times pondered in this...
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josephirvinghorowi
Jan 12, 20223 min read
The Arts and Social Justice — Bedfellows?
Diego Rivera, Triumph of the Revolution (1926) Today’s online edition of The American Purpose – an indispensable centrist voice pondering...
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josephirvinghorowi
Jan 7, 20221 min read
Dvorak’s Prophecy — A “Systematic Curatorial Effort”
The author most recently interviewed by Richard Aldous, in his always lively “Book Stack” series for The American Purpose, happens to be...
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josephirvinghorowi
Dec 16, 20216 min read
John McWhorter on “Dvorak’s Prophecy”
In his New York Times column two days ago, John McWhorter wrote of Dvorak’s Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music:...
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josephirvinghorowi
Nov 27, 20215 min read
DVORAK’S PROPHECY on NPR — Are the Arts Still a “Fit Topic” for Historians?
At the conclusion of the National Public Radio feature I’ve produced about “The Fate of Black Classical Music,” Jenn White – who so...
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josephirvinghorowi
Nov 23, 20213 min read
Dvorak’s Prophecy — A Two-Hour Webcast
My brand-new book Dvorak’s Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music (already a best book of the year in The Financial Times...
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josephirvinghorowi
Nov 21, 20212 min read
Dvorak’s Prophecy, the CIA, and More
My two-hour conversation with Kirill Gerstein, who hosts an indispensable weekly “webinar” dealing with musical issues, mainly focused on...
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josephirvinghorowi
Nov 14, 20211 min read
Dvorak’s Prophecy — Online Wednesday
It’s my pleasure to be Kirill Gerstein’s guest this Wednesday for his “Kronberg Academy” online seminar – that’s at noon ET and you can...
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josephirvinghorowi
Nov 5, 20214 min read
“Die Meistersinger” in Covid Times
Lise Davidsen, Michael Volle, and Klaus Florian Vogt in the Met Meistersinger Like every lifelong Wagnerite, I regard any opportunity to...
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