Jonthan Cott somehow talked Leonard Bernstein into giving an interview long after Bernstein had foresworn interviews. Bernstein invited Cott to dinner at his Connecticut home on...
Henry Cowell (1897-1965) remains something of the “mystery man” of 20th-century American music. He’s everywhere, friends with everyone, organizing everything, an enfant terrible , a controversial...
The title is misleading, the subtitle’s reference to “journeys” is irrelevant, and the promotional blurb on the dust jacket comes nowhere close to answering the question...
Most writing about the orchestra goes through it instrument by instrument. For that, however, Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf or Britten’s Young People’s Guide … is...
