[Ed. Note: This essay is the second in a series of inauguration-related posts leading up to the presidential inauguration on January 20, 2017. Each author of these essays will participate in a “live-blog” event during the course of inauguration day itself here on Musicology Now.] by… Read More
their words about music defined an era by John von Rhein Note: John von Rhein’s essay originally appeared in The Chicago Tribune of 13 January 2015, full text HERE. Herewith an excerpt: They don’t make American icons like Virgil Thomson and Leonard Bernstein anymore. For decades during… Read More
by D. Kern Holoman The term “radical chic” was invented to describe Leonard Bernstein. Tom Wolfe’s “That Party at Lenny’s” was an irreverent look for New York magazine at a 1970 fund-raiser held in the Bernsteins’ Park Avenue penthouse for the… Read More