Archive
Articles
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​Leonard Bernstein as Teacher (New York Review of Books) - 1993
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Why I Quit the New York Times - 2002
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The State of Music Journalism (speech) - Syracuse University School of Journalism Keynote Address, 2005
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Lincoln Center Snapshot: Bernstein, Balanchine, and Bing Fifty Years Later - 2017
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Why Classical Music in America “Stayed White” (The American Scholar) - 2019
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“Our Revels Now Are Ended” – the pandemic and the arts (The American Scholar) - 2020
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“Shostakovich in South Dakota: A Manifesto for American Classical Music” (The American Scholar) - 2023
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“Deep River” – Rediscovering the Quest of Harry Burleigh (forthcoming)
Reviews
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Porgy with Audra Mcdonald (Times Literary Supplement) - 2012
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Richard Crawford’s History of American Music (Times Literary Supplement) - 2001
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Henry Louis de La Grange’s Mahler biography, vol. 4 (Journal of the Society of American Music) - 2009
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The Library of America: Virgil Thomson (Wall Street Journal) - 2016
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Conrad L. Osborne’s Opera as Opera (Wall Street Journal) - 2018