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...

Kurt Weill, a refugee from Nazi Germany, turned himself into one of Broadway’s leading composers – an amazing feat of assimilation. After...

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...

Fill in the blanks: “This was performed and broadcast to millions of people. And something that should resonate with all of us today is...

Winslow Homer: “Lost in the Grand Banks” I keenly anticipated the Metropolitan Museum’s current Winslow Homer retrospective. Titled...

When I filed my eulogy for Alexander Toradze, one of the emails I received was from David Hyslop. The former CEO of the Minnesota...

The pianist Alexander Toradze, who died yesterday of heart failure at the age of 69, was much more than a friend. Lexo enjoyed telling...

Every once in a while a review comes along that eloquently affirms the convictions inspiring a book or recording – even though the...

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...

The Conclusion to my book-in-progress When the Arts Mattered: An Exhortation begins: “No viewer could possibly glean the hypnotic impact...

At the top of today’s 50-minute National Public Radio feature on Silvestre Revueltas – the fourth radio documentary I’ve produced for the...

What happened to Stravinsky in the West? What to make of his “neo-classicism”? These are questions I’ve many times pondered in this...

Diego Rivera, Triumph of the Revolution (1926) Today’s online edition of The American Purpose – an indispensable centrist voice pondering...

The author most recently interviewed by Richard Aldous, in his always lively “Book Stack” series for The American Purpose, happens to be...

In his New York Times column two days ago, John McWhorter wrote of Dvorak’s Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music:...

At the conclusion of the National Public Radio feature I’ve produced about “The Fate of Black Classical Music,” Jenn White – who so...

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...

My two-hour conversation with Kirill Gerstein, who hosts an indispensable weekly “webinar” dealing with musical issues, mainly focused on...

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...

Lise Davidsen, Michael Volle, and Klaus Florian Vogt in the Met Meistersinger Like every lifelong Wagnerite, I regard any opportunity to...