Mark N. Grant

Mark N. Grant is a composer. He is the author of Maestros of the Pen: A History of Classical Music Criticism in America and The Rise and Fall of the Broadway Musical.

Requiem for a Lost Art

Remembering the stars of theater’s golden age

By Mark N. Grant | Tuesday December 23, 2025

The Very Elder Statesman

Konrad Adenauer transformed West Germany, doing his best work as an octogenarian

By Mark N. Grant | Friday March 8, 2024

The Humanist in the Laboratory

A personal encounter with J. Robert Oppenheimer

By Mark N. Grant | Friday August 25, 2023

The Disappearing Modernists

Where did it all go wrong for so much music of the 20th century?

By Mark N. Grant | Thursday August 4, 2022

A Prophecy Unfulfilled?

What a new book and six companion videos have to say about the fate of Black classical music in America

By Mark N. Grant | Saturday April 2, 2022

Requiem for a Lost Art

By Mark N. Grant | Tuesday December 23, 2025

The Very Elder Statesman

By Mark N. Grant | Friday March 8, 2024

The Humanist in the Laboratory

By Mark N. Grant | Friday August 25, 2023

The Disappearing Modernists

By Mark N. Grant | Thursday August 4, 2022

A Prophecy Unfulfilled?

By Mark N. Grant | Saturday April 2, 2022

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