Musical Life: Writings and Letters Book

	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgment
	Foreword
	Preface
	Introduction
I	On Conducting, Conductors, and Musical Life
	A Conversation with Max Rudolf - an interview by Barrymore Laurence Scherer	3
	A Question of Musical Allegiance	11
	On Contemporary American Music	21
	The Conductor's Dilemma of The Hazards of Being Judged	26
	A Medley of Thoughts on Conductors and Composers	44
	Musical Musings from Maine	61
	Selected Correspondence
	to George Szell, 1/24/37	71
	to Helen Thompson, 6/14/60	78
	to George Szell, 7/10/62	83
	to George Szell, 7/16/65	85
	to Irving Kolodin, 10/21/67	87
	to Music Editor, New York Times, 7/8/70	89
	to Edgar J. Mack, 6/19/72	91
	to Harold Schonberg, 5/3/78	94
	to Bathia Churgin, 9/28/92	95
	to Stephen M. Kidd, 3/18/94	97
II	On Performance Practice, Research, and Musicianship
	Good Taste in Music	101
	Authenticity in Musical Performance	115
	Inner Repeats in the Da Capo of Classical Minuets and Scherzos	123
	Brahms's German Requiem: A Report on a Composer-Annotated Score	135
	Translation, Yes. Betrayal, No	151
	Selected Correspondence
	to Harold Schonberg, 2/14/71	157
	to Maurice J. E. Brown, 7/4/73	158
	to The New York Times, 6/8/74	160
	to Emil Kahn, 7/8/75	161
	to Rudolf Serkin, 7/21/76	162
	to Rudolf Serkin, 1/1/78	165
	to Sergiu Luca, 12/19/78	166
	to Rudolf Serkin, 12/31/78	167
	to Shin Augustinus Kojima, 2/15/80	169
	to Shin Augustinus Kojima, 3/13/80	171
	to Shin Augustinus Kojima, 4/12/80	173
	to Sylvia Olden Lee, 3/22/82	174
	to Louis Lane, 8/10/82	176
	to Bernard Jacobsen, 2/16/86	179
	to Gary Graffman, 7/24/86	180
	to Rudolf Serkin, 9/6/87	181
	to David Zinman, 10/14/87	182
	to Jahja Ling, 12/30/87	184
	to Isaac Stern, 5/23/88	185
	to William Meredith, 9/12/88	189
	to William Meredith, 10/9/88	190
	to William Meredith, 11/21/88	191
	to Bathia Churgin, 12/21/88	192
	to Peter Hauschild, 12/28/88	194
	to William Meredith, 1/19/89	196
	to Hugh Macdonald, 7/8/89	197
	to Mark Russell Smith, 12/3/89	198
	to Judy Ann Voois, 9/11/90	199
	to Bathia Churgin, 7/5/91	200
	to Jacques Voois, 10/10/91	202
III	On Mozart and Beethoven
	Pamina's Aria, a Question of Tempo	207
	On the Performance of Mozart's Minuets	211
	Contemporary Mozart Performance: A Diverse Landscape	217
	A Broadcast of Le Nozze di Figaro	221
	Monday, October 29, 1787: The Don Giovanni Premiere	233
	The Metronome Indications in Beethoven's Symphonies	242
	A Question of Tempo in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony	261
	The Arietta in Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Op. 111	265
	Beethoven's "An die Freude" and Two Mysterious Footnotes	267
	Fidelio, a Unique Experience in Opera	274
	Beethoven's "Characteristic Overture" Revisited	279
	On or Before the Beat, a Matter of Fashion?	293
	Improvised thoughts on the 33rd Variation in Beethoven's Op. 120	300
	Selected Correspondence
	to Brigid Brophy, 9/15/64	305
	to Brigid Brophy, 10/30/70	306
	to Brigid Brophy, 4/28/72	309
	to Brigid Brophy, 5/27/72	310
	to Maynard Solomon, 1/14/73	312
	to Leo Mueller, 2/11/74	313
	to Claude Frank, 7/22/76	322
	to Claude Frank, 9/8/76	323
	to William Newman, 3/27/77	325
	to William Newman, 4/9/77	328
	to William Newman, 11/13/78	329
	to Erich Leinsdorf, 3/17/80	332
	to Sandra Rosenblum, 5/23/80	335
	to Sandra Rosenblum, 5/25/80	337
	to Sandra Rosenblum, 6/10/80	339
	to Sandra Rosenblum, 7/11/80	344
	to Lydia Artymiw, 8/21/80	349
	to Dietrich Berke, 5/31/82	351
	to Erich Leinsdorf, 12/26/82	352
	to Maynard Solomon, 1/23/83	353
	to William Newman, 8/3/85	354
	to Louis Lane, 8/14/85	360
	to the editor of 19th Century Music, 12/8/85	361
	to Malcolm Frager, 1/25/86	363
	to Clemens von Gleich, 10/27/87	366
	to Martin Staehelin, 11/10/87	369
	to Malcolm Frager, 5/16/88	374
	to Bathia Churgin, 8/26/88	375
	to Frederick Neumann, 11/14/88	377
	to Bathia Churgin, 2/4/89	379
	to Malcolm Frager, 2/5/89	381
	to William Newman, 3/1/89	383
	to William Newman 3/2/89	387
	to Jean-Pierre Marty, 3/7/89	388
	to Bathia Churgin, 4/2/89	392
	to Bathia Churgin, 4/16/89	392
	to Bathia Churgin, 5/2/89	396
	to Bathia Churgin, 6/16/89	399
	to Gary Graffman, 7/9/89	401
	to Michael Stern, 7/17/89	403
	to Bathia Churgin, 2/18/90	404
	to Frederick Neumann, 2/23/90	405
	to William Meredith, 3/7/90	408
	to Bathia Churgin, 1/2/91	409
	to Frederick Neumann, 1/27/91	411
	to Malcolm Frager, 2/5/91	416
	to Jean-Pierre Marty, 5/25/91	417
	to Jean-Pierre Marty, 6/28/91	419
	to Jean Pierre Marty, 11/23/91	420
	to Jean-Pierre Marty, 1/2/92	421
	to Jean-Pierre Marty, 3/4/92	423
	to Maynard Solomon, 4/24/92	424
	to Maynard Solomon, 7/17/92	426
	to Maynard Solomon, 9/15/92	428
	to Michael Stern, 5/22/93	429
IV	Musical Studies
	Storm and Stress in Music	433
	A Stroke of Genius	469
	Verdi vs. Verdi	473
	The Function of the [actual symbol not reproducible] Sign in Classic German Music as seen by a Concerned Performer	499
	A Musical Comedy of Errors	503
	Selected Correspondence
	to Edward Downes, 12/9/62	507
	to Rudolf Serkin, 12/24/71	511
	to Maynard Solomon, 7/27/92	512
	Index	515