Joseph Horowitz

Joseph Horowitz is the director of Music Unwound. His many books include Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall and the recent novel The Marriage: The Mahlers in New York. His forthcoming book is The Propaganda of Freedom: JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War. He served as executive director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra and PostClassical Ensemble. His More than Music documentaries, including “Shostakovich in South Dakota,” are regularly heard on National Public Radio.