Robert Lienau

The best thing in the [Bard Music] festival could have been enjoyed in the cool quiet of one's study: Ms. Painter's book... The highlight is Mr. Botstein's own essay, a typically virtuosic riff... — BBC Music Magazine More…

[A] brilliant look at how cultural influences propagate through time in strange and unpredictable ways — Library Journal More…

Starred Review. A superb writer. . . . [Swafford has] brought the old curmudgeon . . . to vivid life, at once a comic and a tragic figure and in terms of his significance in American artistic... — Publishers Weekly More…

Heartz's style is easy, almost conversational in tone. He has the great gift of being able to describe a complex sequence of shifting tonalities and textures so lucidly that he makes the drama... — Musical Times More…