Music that remembers
After the end of history, listening to Shostakovich’s art of witness.
Selected Writing
Mahler in the mountains
What we seek – and what we find – on a journey to Mahler’s alpine composing huts. The first of two essays.
Echoes of Alban Berg
Inside a great Violin Concerto, a palimpsest of history and memory.
The Purist
The Boston Globe
Behind the musical masks of composer György Kurtág.