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josephirvinghorowi
Oct 26, 20212 min read
Charles Ives’ America
“’Charles Ives’ America’ is very likely the most important film ever made about American music” – JoAnn Falletta, Music Director, The...
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josephirvinghorowi
Oct 6, 20217 min read
Arts Myopia
Here’s my piece in today’s “American Purpose,” Jeff Gedmin’s daily online magazine which valuably charts a centrist position not only...
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josephirvinghorowi
Oct 3, 20211 min read
On the State of the Arts Today: An Emergency
Nicolas Bejarano Isaza is a young trumpeter, born in Colombia, living in LA. He specializes in new music. He also hosts a podcast: The...
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josephirvinghorowi
Sep 26, 20213 min read
BURIED TREASURE: Farwell’s Forbidden “Hako” Quartet — Take Two
My most recent blog was yet another plea that the music of Arthur Farwell – America’s most important cancelled concert composer – become...
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josephirvinghorowi
Sep 21, 20213 min read
BURIED TREASURE: Arthur Farwell’s “Hako” — Will String Quartets Have the Cou
In the world of classical music, it sometimes happens that a major work lies dormant, undiscovered and unperformed, for a very long time....
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josephirvinghorowi
Sep 6, 20213 min read
Copland and Joe McCarthy on NPR – a “Surreal Experience”
“Aaron Copland and the Spirit of Labor Day” – the radio documentary I was delighted to produce for the enterprising NPR newsmagazine “1A”...
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josephirvinghorowi
Sep 3, 20211 min read
Joe McCarthy Grills Aaron Copland: “As your Communist Party record is extremely long . . . 
“As your Communist Party record is extremely long, I think counsel [i.e., Roy Cohn] will want to ask you some questions. . . . Those who...
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josephirvinghorowi
Aug 13, 20212 min read
Toradze’s Piano Stories — Take Two
My recent posting of Behrouz Jamali’s extraordinary film about Alexander Toradze produced a couple of comments so extraordinary that I’m...
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josephirvinghorowi
Jul 22, 20212 min read
Dvorak’s Prophecy — “Essential Cultural History”
Kirkus Reviews, which previews books for booksellers, critics, and others in the know, has just previewed my forthcoming Dvorak’s...
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josephirvinghorowi
Jul 19, 20212 min read
Art Tatum and the “Black Virtuoso Tradition”
On the heels of his film with Alexander Toradze (my previous blog), Behrouz Jamali has released another remarkable film essay dealing...
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josephirvinghorowi
Jul 13, 20212 min read
Toradze’s Piano Stories
Behrouz Jamali has created the kind of film I had always hoped to see about Alexander Toradze. I permits Toradze to speak for an hour...
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josephirvinghorowi
Jul 5, 20211 min read
Savage Beauty — Take two
Three months ago I blogged about Min Xiao-fen’s exceptional new recording, “White Lotus,” in which her pipa is mated with Rez Abbasi’s...
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josephirvinghorowi
Jun 28, 20217 min read
Inimitable
It is my privilege to partner a new Myrios Classics CD: Mozart’s two most important four-hand piano sonatas, importantly performed by...
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josephirvinghorowi
May 11, 20212 min read
A Soldier’s Tale for Today — Premiered
In PostClassical Ensemble’s new version of Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale, a “cautionary fable” for today, the Soldier weds the Princess –...
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josephirvinghorowi
Apr 19, 20211 min read
A Soldier’s Tale for Today
In the wake of World War I, Igor Stravinsky was living in Switzerland, cut off from his family estate in Russia. He was receiving no...
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josephirvinghorowi
Apr 4, 20213 min read
Savage Beauty
One of the highest achievements in present-day world music is the Chinese-American fusion. It is wondrously explicable. China’s seismic...
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josephirvinghorowi
Feb 9, 20212 min read
How Do You Play a Flower Pot?
How do you play a flower pot? What makes washtubs sound best? How about coffee cans? For the answers, check out Lou Harrison’s...
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josephirvinghorowi
Feb 2, 20212 min read
A “Unique Addition” to the Whitman Repertoire
When PostClassical Ensemble undertook our world premiere recording of the 1944 radio play Whitman, we did so in the conviction that...
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josephirvinghorowi
Jan 8, 20213 min read
Aaron Copland: “One Red to Another”
“If they were a strange sight to me, I was no less of a one to them. It was the first time that many of them had seen an ‘intellectual.’...
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josephirvinghorowi
Dec 29, 20202 min read
“An Act of Empathy” — a Dvorak Radio Documentary
When PostClassical Ensemble produced an hour-long film about Dvorak and “the American experience of race” last September, we hardly...
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