Music and More: Essays, 1968-1991

Contents

• Part 1 Composers: music and Mao
• why Kurt Weill?
• American music - the years of hope
• Lenny on our minds
• Hugo Weisgall's six characters
• a new look at Prokofiev. Part 2 Pianists: Rubinstein the great entertainer
• Bartok at the piano
• Keith Jarrett joins the Bach parade
• the pupils of Clara Schumann and the uses of tradition
• does the piano have a future? Part 3 Conductors: Willem Mengelberg at the Philharmonic
• Pierre Monteux's success
• Toscanini and the love of great music
• Roger Norrington and authentic performance. Part 4 Critics and writers: James William Davison of ""The (London) Times""
• James Huneker and America's musical coming-of-age
• Edward Said, music critic
• but if the artist fails? Part 5 Culture and society: Ivy Litvinov - the commissar's wife
• the muse under Mussolini
• say ""no"" to trash - Mapplethorpe and the nea
• opera and politics
• backward and downward with the arts.