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| Preface: Against Utopia | |
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| Et in Arcadia Ego; or, I Didn't Know I Was Such a Pessimist until I Wrote This Thing (a talk) | |
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| From the New York Times, mostly | |
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| Only Time Will Cover the Taint | |
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| "Nationalism": Colonialism in Disguise? | |
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| Why Do They All Hate Horowitz? | |
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| Optimism amid the Rubble | |
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| A Survivor from the Teutonic Train Wreck | |
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| Does Nature Call the Tune? | |
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| Two Stabs at the Universe | |
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| Away with the Ives Myth: The "Universe" Is Here at Last | |
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| Out of Hibernation: Ives's Mythical Beast | |
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| In Search of the "Good" Hindemith Legacy | |
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| Six Times Six: A Bach Suite Selection | |
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| A Beethoven Season? | |
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| Dispelling the Contagious Wagnerian Mist | |
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| How Talented Composers Become Useless | |
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| Making a Stand against Sterility | |
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| A Sturdy Musical Bridge to the Twenty-first Century | |
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| Calling All Pundits: No More Predictions! | |
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| In The Rake's Progress, Love Conquers (Almost) All | |
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| Markevitch as Icarus | |
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| Let's Rescue Poor Schumann from His Rescuers | |
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| Early Music: Truly Old-Fashioned at Last? | |
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| Bart�k and Stravinsky: Odd Couple Reunited? | |
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| Wagner's Antichrist Crashes a Pagan Party | |
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| A Surrealist Composer Comes to the Rescue of Modernism | |
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| Corraling a Herd of Musical Mavericks | |
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| Can We Give Poor Orff a Pass at Last? | |
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| The Danger of Music and the Case for Control | |
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| Ezra Pound: A Slim Sound Claim to Musical Immortality | |
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| Underneath the Dissonance Beat a Brahmsian Heart | |
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| Enter Boris Goudenow, Just 295 Years Late | |
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| For the New Republic, mostly | |
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| The First Modernist | |
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| The Dark Side of the Moon | |
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| Of Kings and Divas | |
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| The Golden Age of Kitsch | |
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| No Ear for Music: The Scary Purity of John Cage | |
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| Sacred Entertainments | |
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| The Poietic Fallacy | |
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| The Musical Mystique: Defending Classical Music against Its Devotees | |
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| From the scholarly press | |
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| Revising Revision | |
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| Back to Whom? Neoclassicism as Ideology | |
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| She Do the Ring in Different Voices | |
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| Stravinsky and Us | |
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| Envoi | |
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| Setting Limits (a talk) | |
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| Index | |