Publications: Articles
"A Mirror on Which to Dwell," New York Arts Journal, April 1977.
"Carter in the Seventies," Tempo, 1979.
"In Sleep, In Thunder," Tempo, 1982.
Elliott Carter Festival, a brochure with program notes and essays, Arnold Schoenberg Institute, USC, 1983.
"Towards Virtuosity," Speculum Musicae program brochure, 1985.
"Jewish and Musical Tradition in the Music of Mahler and Schoenberg," Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute, 1987.
"Carter's Harvest Home," Tempo 167, Winter 1988 .
"Jewish Liturgical Music," American Grove.
"Carter's New Classicism," College Music Symposium, Volume 29 (1989).
"Of Singers in the Synagogue," (Review of Chose Voices by Mark Slobin, I.S.A.M. Newletter, November 1989.
"Elliott Carter's Violin Concerto," Tempo, September 1990.
Review of "The Later Music of Elliott Carter." Notes, Vol. 47, No. 3, March 1991.
"In the 30s, Black Swing Was Golden," New York Times, 28 July 1991.
"Pump Up the Volume, Beethoven," New York Times, 11 August 1991.
"The Century May Already Be At An End," New York Times, 10 November 1991.
"The Bounds of Music." The New Republic, 3 February 1992.
"A Pianist With Harlem on His Mind," New York Times, 6 February 1992.
"Ravel's Piano Style: A Bermuda Triangle," New York Times, 1 March 1992.
"Performers Catch Up With a Composer's Imaginings," New York Times, 28 June 1992.
"Opera is...a. Drama b. Nonsense," New York Times, 2 August 1992.
"In an Ugly Century, a Place for the 'Merely Beautiful'," New York Times, 22 November 1992.
"Review of Pierre Boulez, Stocktakings of an Apprenticeship," Notes, March 1993.
"Re-hearing Bernstein," The Atlantic Monthly, June 1993.
"Scanning the Dial," The Atlantic Monthly, November 1993.
"Composers on the Couch," The Atlantic Monthly, January 1994.
"For Some Composers, Twas Not a Gift to be Simple," New York Times, 9 January 1994.
"Schoenberg Alive (Gasp) and Well," New York Times, 16 January 1994.
"Seattle Opera Brings Out the Best in Britten," Wall Street Journal, 5 April 1994.
"Crawford's America (Review of The American Musical Landscape by Richard Crawford)," I.S.A.M. Newletter, Vol. XXIII, No. 2, Spring 1994.
"In Brooklyn a Sandblasting for Stravinsky," New York Times, 1 May 1994.
"The Life of Lenny (Review of Leonard Bernstein by Humphrey Carpenter)," The Sunday Oregonian, 5 June 1994.
"A Brash Kid No More: The Maturing of a Maestro," New York Times, 19 June 1994.
"Prince of Patrons (Review of Mosaic: Memoirs by Lincoln Kirstein)," New York Newsday, 3 July 1994.
"Wagner Up Against the Wall," Wall Street Journal, 27 July 1994.
"Leipzig on the Hudson," New York Times Sunday Magazine, 28 November 1994.
"Built Pieces. [Duke Ellington as composer]," The Atlantic, January 1995.
"Sister Martha explains it All," ISAM Newsletter, Spring 1995.
"Take That, Wagner," Seattle Weekly, 2 August 1995.
"Twilight of the Gods," Seattle Weekly, 23 August 1995.
"An Older, Wiser Wunderkind," New York Times Magazine, 20 August 1995.
"Unreconstructed Modernist [Pierre Boulez]," The Atlantic, September 1995.
"By Everyman, for Everyman [Irving Berlin]," The Atlantic, March 1996.
"The Many Faces of Ives," The Atlantic, January 1997.
"Listening to the Other Mahler, the Hopeful One," New York Times, 22 December 1996.
"A Composer Finds His Muses in the Here and Now: Performers," New York Times, 17 March 1996.
"Exodus, Moses And a Lot of Gaps," New York Times, 25 May 1997.
"Ado Over Penty O' Nuttin'," New York Times, 29 June 1997.
"Classical Appeal," The Atlantic, August 1997.
"Redeeming the Rake," The Atlantic, November 1997.
"Learning from Britten," Opera News, 3 January 1998.
"Modernists in the California," Sunday New York Times, 25 January 1998.
"A Paper Mountain: Elliott Carter's Sketches," Settling New Scores, Music Manuscripts from the Paul Sacher Foundation, Felix Meyer, ed. Schott, 1998.
"A Lyrical Reading of Bartok's Quartets," New York Times, 29 March 1998.
"Classical Radio Plays only to Sweet Tooths," New York Times, 31 May 1998.
"Is Headline Opera Yesterdays News?" New York Times, 7 June 199.8
"Making the Case for Prokofiev as a Heavyweight Contender," New York Times, 21 June 1998.
"A Matchmaker Promises Bliss in 'Tristan'," New York Times, 26 July 1998.
"Misunderstanding Gershwin," The Atlantic Monthly, October 1998.
"Carter as Symphonist," The Musical Times, December 1998.
"A Defiant 90-year Old Who Belongs to Two Continents [Elliott Carter]," New York Times, 13 December 1998.
"A New Measure for Heroes in Music's Valhalla," New York Times, 28 February 1999.
"How Aaron Copland Became the Macher of American Music," Forward, 19 March 1999.
"Who's We, White Boy? Review of Cambridge History of American Music," Times Literary Supplement, 16 April 1999.
"Webern and the Music Theory Racket," Times Literary Supplement, 2 July 1999.
"Schoenberg's Cool Eye for the Erotic," New York Times, 8 August 1999.
"Bridging a Chasm in the Modern Canon," New York Times, 8 August 1999.
"We Want Magic," Atlantic Monthly, October 1998.
"Who Was That Masked Composer?" Atlantic Monthly, January 2000.
"On the Road Toward Hope: Kurt Weill’s Celebration of the Jews," New York Times, 27 February 2000.
"Breathing Life into Porgy and Bess," New York Times, 5 March 2000.
"A Case for the Melodious and Poignant Stravinsky," New York Times, 18 February 2001.
"Taking Movie Music Seriously," New York Times, 22 April 2001.
"The Tradition of the Oldie," Atlantic Monthly, March 2001.
"Review of 'Making Music Modern' by Carol Oja," TLS, 1 May 2001.
"In Glass’s House," The Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2001.
"The Man Who Mainstreamed Mahler," New York Times, 4 November 2001.
"Conducting: A Backwoods Guide," The Atlantic Monthly, April 2002.
"Out of Our Dreams," The Atlantic Monthly, October 2002.
"Memory Spaces," The Atlantic Monthly, April 2003.
"Finding Religion in the Theater, Drama in the Church," New York Times, 2 June 2002.
"Spiritual Testament, Political Testament, or Both?" New York Times, 25 August, 2002.
"Review of The Oxford Companion to Music," TLS, 17 January 2003.
"Probably Bob," TLS, 31 January 2003.
"A Musical Postcard from the Nazi Storm," New York Times, 23 March 2003.
"Mahler’s Military Superiority," TLS, 30 May 2003.
"Opera Gets a New Home a Few Blocks from Rock," New York Times, 27 July 2003.
"The Secret Love Affair Behind the ‘Lyric Suite’," New York Times, 21 September 2003.
"Review of 'Jazz Modernism',” TLS, 3 October 2003.
"Review of Schoenberg, Kandinsky and the Blue Rider," TLS, 12 March 2004.
"Review of Glen Watkins: Proof Through the Night," TLS, 30 May 2004.
"Review of Andrea Most: Making Americans," TLS, 4 July 2004.
"One Swell Party (Cole Porter)," The Atlantic Monthly, August 2004.
"We Got Rhythm," The Forward, 4 September 2004.
"Leonard Bernstein" and "Elliott Carter" articles for the New Grove and "Elliott Carter" article for the new MGG.
"Notes for the next episode" review of The Sea on Fire by Paul Griffiths, TLS 12 November 2004
"Still Turning Provocations into Classics" review of recordings by Robert Craft. New York Times 13 March 2005.
"C major wars" review of books on Shostakovich, TLS 6 May 2005.
"Music for the End of Time" review of Messiaen by Peter Hill and Nigel Simeone. The Nation 13 February 2006.
"Notes from Beyond" review of Other Planets by Robin Maconie; TLS March 31 2006.
"Decoding Stravinsky" review of Stravinsky, the second exile by Stephen Walsh. Moscow Times July 7-13 2006.
"Step Right Up: The Ride of the Would-Be Wagnerians" New York Times 27 August 2006.
"A Rebel in Defense of Tradition" (Steve Reich) The Nation 6 November 2006.