Joseph Horowitz

Joseph Horowitz’s books include Wagner Nights: An American History, Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall, and the novel The Marriage: The Mahlers in New York. (May 2025)

Grand Opera’s Tribulations

This season’s production of Aida at the Met sheds light on issues facing both the company and the genre of grand opera itself.

Aida

an opera by Giuseppe Verdi, directed by Michael Mayer, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, December 31, 2024–May 9, 2025

May 29, 2025 issue

‘Artists in Exile’

June 12, 2008 issue

‘Professor Lenny’

July 15, 1993 issue

Professor Lenny

Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic beginning August 25 by the Smithsonian Institution via mail order West, Suite 1Y, New York, NY 10023)

written and hosted by Leonard Bernstein, produced by Roger Englander. A series of 25 Sony Classical video cassettes to be released. also available from the Leonard Bernstein Society (25 Central Park

Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts

Newly revised and expanded edition, edited by Jack Gottlieb

The Infinite Variety of Music

by Leonard Bernstein

The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard Society)

by Leonard Bernstein. a series of six video cassettes

The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard

by Leonard Bernstein

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June 10, 1993 issue

Letter