Music and More Essays, 1975-1991 Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: The Culture of Classical Music Today	1
Pt. 1	Composers
1	Music and Mao	29
2	Why Kurt Weill?	36
3	American Music: The Years of Hope	50
4	Lenny on Our Minds	64
5	Hugo Weisgall's Six Characters	77
6	A New Look at Prokofiev	84
Pt. 2	Pianists
7	Rubinstein the Great Entertainer	99
8	Bartok at the Piano	112
9	Keith Jarrett Joins the Bach Parade	124
10	The Pupils of Clara Schumann and the Uses of Tradition	130
11	Does the Piano Have a Future?	141
Pt. 3	Conductors
12	Willem Mengelberg at the Philharmonic	157
13	Pierre Monteux's Success	164
14	Toscanini and the Love of Great Music	174
15	Roger Norrington and Authentic Performance	187
Pt. 4	Critics and Writers
16	James William Davison of The (London) Times	201
17	James Huneker and America's Musical Coming-of-Age	215
18	Edward Said, Music Critic	233
19	But If the Artist Fail?	243
Pt. 5	Culture and Society
20	Ivy Litvinov: The Commissar's Wife	261
21	The Muse under Mussolini	279
22	Say No to Trash: Mapplethorpe and the NEA	289
23	Opera and Politics	292
24	Backward and Downward with the Arts	300
	Notes	310