Cal & Liz & Ted & Sylvia
The corresponding prose of midcentury poets
Atonality and Beyond
The century when composers and audiences parted company
An Epic in Flux
Gilgamesh, the world’s first great literary work, is still being pieced together
Lenny’s Little Chats
Envy the children who learned music from the maestro, Leonard Bernstein
On Virtuosity
A mastery of technique ought to be exalted, not disdained
In Praise of Flubs
The pursuit of perfection has taken all the personality out of recorded classical music
