Tim Page on Music: Views and Reviews

By Tim Page
Foreword by Anthony Tommasini

Foreword by Anthony Tommasini
Preface
Acknowledgments

Views

Kathleen Battle: A Lament
The Cleveland Orchestra
Van Cliburn
John Corigliano
Plácido Domingo
Leon Fleisher
Glenn Gould in Retrospect
Jascha Heifetz
Philippe Herreweghe
Michael Hersch
The High Llamas
Vladimir Horowitz: A Dissent
Lang Lang
Mario Lanza
Otto Luening: In Memoriam
Ward Marston
Bobby McFerrin
The Loyal Listener: Elizabeth Mensh
Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields
Olivier Messiaen: In Memoriam
Midori at 21
The National Symphony Orchestra in Europe
The Ordeal of Kevin Oldham
Samuel Ramey
Arthur Rubinstein
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Robert Shaw: The Last Interview
The Resurrection of Sibelius
Frank Sinatra
Michael Tilson Thomas
Dawn Upshaw
Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart)
Webern after Webernism

Reviews

Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio
Chou Wen-Chung
Luciano Pavarotti in Central Park
Georg Solti
The Deep Listening Band
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Labor Day with the National Symphony Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Bruckner
A Vietnam Oratorio
John Cage's Europera 5
The Klezmer Revival
David Helfgott
Alfred Brendel
Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina
La Rondine at the Washington Opera
Paul Dresher
Ned Rorem's Masterpiece
Andrea Bocelli
Evgeny Kissin
A Streetcar Named Desire
George Gershwin at 100
Yo-Yo Ma in Contemporary Music

Postscripts

Radical Music That Will Remain That Way
The End of the Classical Dinosaurs
Pittsburgh's Dumbing Down
The Pops Perplex
National Anthems I Have Known
When Good Art Happens to Bad People
A Plea for the Solitary Cheer
Boom Boxes in Willimantic
Singing Walls

Index