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, 2021
- 7 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 7 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
“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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