Michael Steinberg has taught at several universities and conservatories, was music critic of The Boston Globe, has contributed to numerous periodicals, and served as program annotator for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic. His program notes have been collected in three Listener's Guides on The Symphony, The Concerto, and Choral Masterworks. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Larry Rothe has been publications editor of the San Francisco Symphony since 1984. His articles have appeared in Symphony magazine, Playbill, and Stagebill, and he is co-editor of American Mavericks: Visionaries, Pioneers, Iconoclasts. He lives in Berkeley, California.

• Introduction ; I. BEGINNINGS ; How I Fell in Love with Music ; Preliminary: The Professor's Legacy ; II. CREATIONS ; Another Word for Mozart ; Thinking of Robert Schumann ; The Sacred, the Profane, and the Gritty Affirmations of Music ; Franz Schubert, "A Rich Possession" ; Encountering Brahms ; Schoenberg, Brahms, and The Great Tradition ; First-Rate Second-Class Composer ; Sibelius and Mahler: What More Could There BE? ; Remembering Rachmaninoff ; Erich Wolfgang Korngold: A Meditation ; Tchaikovsky's Mozart (and Others') ; On the Trail of W.A. Mozart ; What They Saw ; A Short Life of J.S. Bach ; Stravinsky's Ear-stretching, Joy-giving Legacy ; III. THE RECENT SCENE ; A Visit with Lou Harrison ; George Perle: Composing a Way of Life ; A Quintet for American Music ; Three American Composers in Pursuit of the White Whale ; A Century Set to Music ; IV. MISSIONARIES ; Making America Musical: A Salute to Theodore Thomas ; Sigmund Spaeth, Someone You Should Know ; Isaac Stern - On Music and Life ; V. AFFAIRS TO REMEMBER ; Loving Memories of Movie Music ; Vienna Trilogy: Vignettes from the City of Music ; Music, True or False ; Why We Are Here ; VI. POSTLUDE ; The Sounds We Make

an elegant eloquent and infectious look at Western orchestral music... this excellent work will inform, entice and revive you. Martyn Swain, The Works

Michael Steinberg has taught at several universities and conservatories, was music critic of The Boston Globe, has contributed to numerous periodicals, and served as program annotator for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic. His program notes have been collected in three Listener's Guides on The Symphony, The Concerto, and Choral Masterworks. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Larry Rothe has been publications editor of the San Francisco Symphony since 1984. His articles have appeared in Symphony magazine, Playbill, and Stagebill, and he is co-editor of American Mavericks: Visionaries, Pioneers, Iconoclasts. He lives in Berkeley, California.

• Introduction ; I. BEGINNINGS ; How I Fell in Love with Music ; Preliminary: The Professor's Legacy ; II. CREATIONS ; Another Word for Mozart ; Thinking of Robert Schumann ; The Sacred, the Profane, and the Gritty Affirmations of Music ; Franz Schubert, "A Rich Possession" ; Encountering Brahms ; Schoenberg, Brahms, and The Great Tradition ; First-Rate Second-Class Composer ; Sibelius and Mahler: What More Could There BE? ; Remembering Rachmaninoff ; Erich Wolfgang Korngold: A Meditation ; Tchaikovsky's Mozart (and Others') ; On the Trail of W.A. Mozart ; What They Saw ; A Short Life of J.S. Bach ; Stravinsky's Ear-stretching, Joy-giving Legacy ; III. THE RECENT SCENE ; A Visit with Lou Harrison ; George Perle: Composing a Way of Life ; A Quintet for American Music ; Three American Composers in Pursuit of the White Whale ; A Century Set to Music ; IV. MISSIONARIES ; Making America Musical: A Salute to Theodore Thomas ; Sigmund Spaeth, Someone You Should Know ; Isaac Stern - On Music and Life ; V. AFFAIRS TO REMEMBER ; Loving Memories of Movie Music ; Vienna Trilogy: Vignettes from the City of Music ; Music, True or False ; Why We Are Here ; VI. POSTLUDE ; The Sounds We Make

an elegant eloquent and infectious look at Western orchestral music... this excellent work will inform, entice and revive you. Martyn Swain, The Works

Michael Steinberg has taught at several universities and conservatories, was music critic of The Boston Globe, has contributed to numerous periodicals, and served as program annotator for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic. His program notes have been collected in three Listener's Guides on The Symphony, The Concerto, and Choral Masterworks. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Larry Rothe has been publications editor of the San Francisco Symphony since 1984. His articles have appeared in Symphony magazine, Playbill, and Stagebill, and he is co-editor of American Mavericks: Visionaries, Pioneers, Iconoclasts. He lives in Berkeley, California.

• Introduction ; I. BEGINNINGS ; How I Fell in Love with Music ; Preliminary: The Professor's Legacy ; II. CREATIONS ; Another Word for Mozart ; Thinking of Robert Schumann ; The Sacred, the Profane, and the Gritty Affirmations of Music ; Franz Schubert, "A Rich Possession" ; Encountering Brahms ; Schoenberg, Brahms, and The Great Tradition ; First-Rate Second-Class Composer ; Sibelius and Mahler: What More Could There BE? ; Remembering Rachmaninoff ; Erich Wolfgang Korngold: A Meditation ; Tchaikovsky's Mozart (and Others') ; On the Trail of W.A. Mozart ; What They Saw ; A Short Life of J.S. Bach ; Stravinsky's Ear-stretching, Joy-giving Legacy ; III. THE RECENT SCENE ; A Visit with Lou Harrison ; George Perle: Composing a Way of Life ; A Quintet for American Music ; Three American Composers in Pursuit of the White Whale ; A Century Set to Music ; IV. MISSIONARIES ; Making America Musical: A Salute to Theodore Thomas ; Sigmund Spaeth, Someone You Should Know ; Isaac Stern - On Music and Life ; V. AFFAIRS TO REMEMBER ; Loving Memories of Movie Music ; Vienna Trilogy: Vignettes from the City of Music ; Music, True or False ; Why We Are Here ; VI. POSTLUDE ; The Sounds We Make

an elegant eloquent and infectious look at Western orchestral music... this excellent work will inform, entice and revive you. Martyn Swain, The Works