Joseph Horowitz

Joseph Horowitz’s most recent book is a novel about Anton Seidl and Wagnerism in America, The Disciple: A Wagnerian Tale of the Gilded Age. His books-in-progress are Bearing Witness: The American Odyssey of Leonard Bernstein and Why Ives? A Celebration of Cultural Memory.

Our Revels Now Are Ended

What the pandemic portends for the performing arts in America

By Joseph Horowitz | Monday December 7, 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 9, 2019
Black-and-white photo of composer William Levi Dawson

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?

By Joseph Horowitz | Friday September 13, 2019

The People’s Critic

By Joseph Horowitz | Monday April 27, 2026

The Enigma of Ur

By Joseph Horowitz | Thursday December 18, 2025

Lessons in the Diplomatic Arts

By Joseph Horowitz | Thursday July 3, 2025

Song for the Earth

By Joseph Horowitz | Monday March 31, 2025

The Baritone as Democrat

By Joseph Horowitz | Thursday November 21, 2024

Anchoring Shards of Memory

By Joseph Horowitz | Monday September 9, 2024

Consummated in Exile

By Joseph Horowitz | Friday June 14, 2024

Ripeness Is All

By Joseph Horowitz | Thursday April 11, 2024

The Homesick Composer

By Joseph Horowitz | Friday January 26, 2024

Shostakovich in South Dakota

By Joseph Horowitz | Thursday September 7, 2023

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