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Preface a concentration on essentials -- Prologue a certain independence -- An interview with William Keens -- Music in America today. -- The road to now -- Doing music, doing American music -- American string-quartet writing -- The Philharmonic's new horizons -- Musical New York in decline -- The crisis continues -- The Harvard Cage -- The future of classical music -- The problem of new opera. -- Opera 1984: dead or alive? -- Blitzstein's Cradle -- Einstein's long march to Brooklyn -- Casanova at the City Opera -- Lord Byron undone -- A dissent on Menotti -- Dismal thoughts on the present and future -- Performing and performers. -- Reflections on Bach -- What the Cliburn contest thinks of pianists -- Sad thoughts on Walter Busterkeys, a.k.a. Liberace -- Ruminations on the romantic piano -- Vladimir Horowitz 1904-1989 -- The violinist of the age -- The Met's failed Walküre -- Dead from Lincoln Center -- Marian Anderson: The diva from Philadelphia -- New life from old records -- Leinsdorf at the Philharmonic -- The Berlin Philharmonic without Karajan -- Karajan: the last time? -- Is the symphony orchestra dead? -- Making culture possible. -- Funding the arts: who decides? -- Cultural policy: Whither America, whither government? -- Art and patronage today -- New York and its future -- To teach the administrators -- New thoughts on the great audience hunt -- The buck goes where? -- Why give to the arts? -- The case of Nancy Hanks -- The NEA: looking back, and looking ahead -- Epilogue redefining culture and democracy. |
