For The Love of Music: Invitations to Listening

Contents

• Introduction
• I. Beginnings
• Michael Steinberg: How I Fell in Love with Music
• Larry Rothe: Preliminary: The Professor's Legacy
• II. Creations
• Michael Steinberg: Another Word for Mozart
• Michael Steinberg: Thinking of Robert Schumann
• Larry Rothe: The Sacred, the Profane, and the Gritty Affirmations of Music
• Michael Steinberg: Franz Schubert, A Rich Possession
• Larry Rothe: Encountering Brahms
• Michael Steinberg: Schoenberg, Brahms, and The Great Tradition
• Larry Rothe: First-Rate Second-Class Composer
• Larry Rothe: Sibelius and Mahler: What More Could There BE?
• Michael Steinberg: Remembering Rachmaninoff
• Larry Rothe: Erich Wolfgang Korngold: A Meditation
• Michael Steinberg: Tchaikovsky's Mozart (and Others')
• Larry Rothe: On the Trail of W.A. Mozart
• Larry Rothe: What They Saw
• Larry Rothe: A Short Life of J.S. Bach
• Michael Steinberg: Stravinsky's Ear-stretching, Joy-giving Legacy
• III. The Recent Scene
• Michael Steinberg: A Visit with Lou Harrison
• Larry Rothe: George Perle: Composing a Way of Life
• Michael Steinberg: A Quintet for American Music
• Larry Rothe: Three American Composers in Pursuit of the White Whale
• Michael Steinberg: A Century Set to Music
• IV. Missionaries
• Michael Steinberg: Making America Musical: A Salute to Theodore Thomas
• Larry Rothe: Sigmund Spaeth, Someone You Should Know
• Michael Steinberg: Isaac Stern - On Music and Life
• V. Affairs to Remember
• Larry Rothe: Loving Memories of Movie Music
• Larry Rothe: Vienna Trilogy: Vignettes from the City of Music
• Larry Rothe: Music, True or False
• Michael Steinberg: Why We Are Here
• VI. Postlude
• The Sounds We Make