Writing for The New Yorker, 1993-2016:
Essays
Mallarmé, April 11, 2016.
Orson Welles, Dec. 7, 2015.
Gay Berlin, Jan. 26, 2015.
Beethoven, Oct. 20, 2014.
Adorno and Benjamin, Sept. 15, 2014.
Henry Wallace, Oct. 14, 2013.
Shakespeare, Wagner, Aldridge, July 29, 2013.
Love on the March, Nov. 12, 2012.
Harry Kessler, April 23, 2012.
Gesualdo, Dec. 19 and 26, 2011.
Oscar Wilde, Aug. 9, 2011.
Ten Bars of the Ring, April 25, 2011.
Cage, Oct. 4, 2010.
Fictional composers, Aug. 24, 2009.
Marian Anderson, April 13, 2009.
Bernstein, Dec. 15, 2008.
Classical music in China, July 7, 2008.
Mozart, July 24, 2006.
Feldman, June 19, 2006.
The Record Effect, June 6, 2005.
Listen to This, Feb. 16, 2004.
Pop-music studies, July 14, 2003.
Verdi, Sept. 24, 2001.
Stravinsky, Nov. 6, 2000.
Bosie Douglas, July 24, 2000.
Shostakovich, March 20, 2000.
Richard Strauss, Dec. 20, 1999.
Bob Dylan, May 10, 1999.
Bret Easton Ellis, Jan. 11, 1999.
Wagner's anti-Semitism, Aug. 10, 1998.
Professor Moriarty, Aug. 11, 1997.
Pfitzner and Strauss, July 21, 1997.
Schubert, Jan. 27, 1997.
True Crime, Aug. 19, 1996.
Thomas Mann, March 11, 1996.
Mahler, Sept. 4, 1995.
In memorian Kurt Cobain, April 25, 1994.
Wayne Koestenbaum's The Queen's Throat, April 12, 1993.
Profiles
Yuval Sharon and Hopscotch, Nov. 16, 2015.
Iván Fischer, June 2, 2014.
Joyce DiDonato, Oct. 7, 2013.
Michael Giacchino, May 7, 2010.
Mitsuko Uchida and Marlboro, June 29, 2009.
John Luther Adams, May 12, 2008.
Esa-Pekka Salonen and the LA Phil, April 30, 2007.
Music education, Sept. 4, 2006.
Peter Sellars and Doctor Atomic, Oct. 3, 2005.
Björk, April 23, 2004.
Radiohead, Aug. 20, 2001.
John Adams, Jan. 8, 2001.
St. Lawrence Quartet, May 21, 2001.
Thomas Adès, Oct. 26, 1998.
Valery Gergiev, April 13, 1998.
Musical Events columns (partial list)
Big Ears Festival, April 18, 2016.
Opera Startups, March 28, 2016.
Messiaen's Canyons, Feb. 22, 2016.
In memoriam Boulez, Jan. 18, 2016.
Goldbergs at the Armory, Jan. 11, 2016.
Premières: Great Scott, Bel Canto, Jan. 4, 2016.
Kentridge's Lulu, Nov. 23, 2015.
András Schiff on Schubert, Nov. 2, 2015.
Laurie Anderson, Oct. 19, 2015.
Otello at the Met, Oct. 12, 2015.
Twentieth-century symphonies, Aug. 31, 2015.
Harry Partch and Ethel Smyth, Aug. 10, 2015.
Steven Schick a the Ojai Festival, July 6 and 13, 2015.
Cav/Pag at the Met, May 11, 2015.
Dusapin's Penthesilea, April 27, 2015.
Paris Philharmonie, April 20, 2015.
Meyer Sound, Feb. 23 and March 2, 2015.
Early music at the Met Museum, Feb. 9, 2015.
Meredith Monk and Gabriel Kahane, Jan. 5. 2015.
Organ and Orchestra, Dec. 15, 2014.
Andris Nelsons in Boston, Dec. 1, 2014.
Klinghoffer at the Met, Nov. 3, 2014.
The Peter Sellars Passion, Oct. 27, 2014.
Netrebko at the Met, Oct. 20, 2014.
The Classical Cloud, Sept. 8, 2014.
Hollywood Bowl, Aug. 25, 2014.
NY Phil Biennial, June 23, 2014.
Spring for Music, May 26, 2014.
Liza Lim, April 28, 2014.
Igor Levit, April 14, 2014.
Carnegie's Vienna Festival, March 24, 2014.
Music in Warsaw, March 3, 2014.
Prototype Festival, Feb. 3, 2014.
Falstaff at the Met, Jan. 6, 2014.
Prokofiev's Gambler at the Met, April 9, 2001.
Golijov's Pásion, March 5, 2001.
Vivaldi, Feb. 19, 2001.
Busoni and Frank Martin, Jan. 29, 2001.
Marc-André Hamelin and Earl Wild, Dec. 18, 2000.
New music at Miller Theatre, Dec. 4, 2000.
Flimm's Fidelio at the Met, Oct. 30, 2000.
Jansons in Pittsburgh, Oct. 9, 2000.
The Flimm Ring at Bayreuth, Sept. 4, 2000.
Electronic music at the Lincoln Center Festival, July 31, 2000.
Glyndebourne and Aldeburgh, July 10, 2000.
CD collecting, June 5, 2000.
Lauren Flanigan and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, May 8, 2000.
Boulez at 75, April 10, 2000.
Bach anniversary, March 6, 2000.
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Feb. 7, 2000.
Harbison's Gatsby, Jan. 10, 2000.
Tristan at the Met, Dec. 6, 1999.
Millennium symphonies at the NY Phil, Nov. 29, 1999.
Bolcom's View from the Bridge, Feldman's Second Quartet, Nov. 1, 1999.
Busoni's Faust in Salzburg, Aug, 23, 1999.
Central Park at Glimmerglass, Aug. 9, 1999.
The Ring in San Francisco, July 12, 1999.
Cleveland Orchestra, May 31, 1999.
Ian Bostridge's Schubert, May 17, 1999.
Messiaen's Canyons, April 5, 1999.
The Great Pianists series on Philips, March 29, 1999.
Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, March 8, 1999.
Korngold and Elgar, Feb. 15, 1999.
Milton Babbitt and Elliot Carter, Dec. 21, 1998.
Tchaikovsky, Nov. 30, 1998.
Miller's Figaro at the Met, Nov. 16, 1998.
Previn's Streetcar Named Desire, Oct. 5, 1998.
In memoriam Schnittke, Aug. 31, 1998.
Cecil Taylor and Sonic Youth, July 13, 1998.
Ockeghem and others, June 1, 1998.
Robert Wilson's Lohengrin, March 30, 1998.
Oscar-nominated scores, March 9, 1998.
Colin Davis's Sibelius, Jan. 12, 1998.
Tilson Thomas in San Francisco, Nov. 17, 1997.
Oasis and Radiohead, Sept. 29, 1997.
Peter Lieberson and Lorraine Hunt, Aug. 18, 1997.
Gubaidulina, June 16, 1997.
Pavement, May 26, 1997.
Wozzeck at the Met, March 10, 1997.
The Great American Symphony, Feb. 17, 1997.
The Battle of Britten, Dec. 16, 1996.
Talk of the Town, etc.
Concert Rage, March 26, 2001.
Stanley Kubrick Was My Friend, Too, Aug. 2, 1999.
In memoriam Sinatra, May 25, 1998.
The Finnish Crescendo, April 28, 1997.
David Helfgott, March 17, 1997.
Introduction to the Music Issue, Aug. 26, 1996.
Selected pieces for The New York Times, 1992-97
Ligeti in Boston, New York Times, March 20, 1993.
Satie's Vexations, New York Times, May 10, 1993.
Brooklyn Youth Chorus, New York Times, December 12, 1993.
Interview with Schnittke, New York Times, February 10, 1994.
Elektra w/ Jones, Rysanek, Voigt, New York Times, April 4, 1994.
AMM, New York Times, May 7, 1994.
Reinbert de Leeuw at Tanglewood, New York Times, August 11, 1994.
Esa-Pekka Salonen interview, New York Times, Nov. 27, 1994.
Feldman's Guston, New York Times, May 13, 1995.
Galina Ustvolskaya, New York Times, May 28, 1995.
Dresden and Prague, New York Times, June 6, 1995.
London 1995, New York Times, June 24, 1995.
Thomas Adès at Aldeburgh, New York Times, July 2, 1995.
Schnittke's Faust, New York Times, July 6, 1995.
Music in World War II, New York Times, Aug. 20, 1995.
Boulez at 70, New York Times, April 16, 1995.
Orson Welles, New York Times, Jan. 21, 1996.
Osmo Vänskä and the Iceland Symphony, New York Times, Feb. 29, 1996.
Mann in Love, The New Yorker, March 11, 1996.
MTT's Mavericks Festival, New York Times, June 19, 1996.
Herrmann's Vertigo, New York Times, Oct. 6, 1996.
Babbitt's Clarinet Quintet, New York Times, Oct. 16, 1996.
Other publications
Wallace Stevens, Slate, Jan. 8, 1998.
"Young Adorno," Transition, 1996.
Schnittke 1992, The New Republic, Sept. 28, 1992.
Britten on WHRB, 1988.
