Boydell & Brewer

These wide-ranging essays [are drawn] from a lifetime of thinking and teaching about all music, [including] John Cage, Milton Babbitt, [and] 'the confluence between Western art music and ethnomusicology.'.... — Choice More…

Intriguing . . . [and] lucid. An attractive bonus is an extensive online supplement — International Piano More…

Offers informed, trenchant assessments of important Met stagings. . . . Especially insightful about the work of regional companies. . . . Martin's effort combines a critic's eye, a scholar's... — Opera News More…

A thoughtful and well-written book. A mix of social and economic history, it is a stellar example of what a study of conductors and conducting can achieve, when the various mix of emphasis is... — Music and Letters More…

[The authors] have produced a remarkably thorough and useful study, which rewards careful reading...a magisterial overview — Music and Letters More…

Wayward, fiery and unpredictable, Heinrich Neuhaus approached his playing and teaching with the air of an eccentric and intemperate philosopher...[he] left a righteous pianistic legacy — International Piano More…

I can't imagine a better way to introduce budding singers to the dramatic part of music drama. -- Stephen Brown — The Times More…

The list of those who owed much to [the Princesse de Polignac] is simply breathtaking. . . . This biography by Sylvia Kahan [now available . . . in paperback] is easy to read as an adventure... — Gramophone Magazine More…