String Theorist
The New Yorker
A profile of the German violin soloist Christian Tetzlaff.
Selected Writing: Profiles
When music was like medicine
The New York Times
Mstislav Rostropovich looks back on Soviet musical life, and the ghosts who linger.
The Purist
The Boston Globe
Behind the musical masks of composer György Kurtág.
The heroism of Hans von Dohnanyi
The Boston Globe
In a rare interview, the conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi recalls his father’s war against Adolf Hitler.
The Denouncer
The Boston Globe
A meeting with Tikhon Khrennikov, the official who attacked Shostakovich and Prokofiev — and outlived the Soviet Union.