Joseph Horowitz is the author, most recently, of a novel, The Marriage: The Mahlers in New York, and of The Propaganda of Freedom: JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War.
Joseph Horowitz
The Homesick Composer
Sergei Rachmaninoff may have taken American citizenship in 1943, but his heart and soul remained in his Russian past
by Joseph Horowitz | Friday, January 26, 2024
Shostakovich in South Dakota
A manifesto for the future of American classical music
by Joseph Horowitz | Thursday, September 07, 2023
Our Revels Now Are Ended
What the pandemic portends for the performing arts in America
by Joseph Horowitz | Monday, December 07, 2020
Porgy and Bess at the Met
The pinnacle of American classical music and the nation’s most venerable opera company have long needed each other
by Joseph Horowitz | Wednesday, October 09, 2019
New World Prophecy
Dvořák once predicted that American classical music would be rooted in the black vernacular. Why, then, has the field remained so white?