Table of Contents
Introduction xi
I Beginnings
How I Fell in Love with Music (MS) 3
Preliminary: The Professor's Legacy (LR) 11
II Creators
Another Word for Mozart (MS) 19
Thinking of Robert Schumann (MS) 25
The Sacred, the Profane, and the Gritty Affirmations of Music (LR) 33
Franz Schubert, "A Rich Possession" (MS) 39
Encountering Brahms (LR) 47
Schoenberg, Brahms, and The Great Tradition (MS) 57
First-Rate Second-Class Composer (LR) 63
Sibelius and Mahler: What More Could There Be? (LR) 69
Remembering Rachmaninoff (MS) 77
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: A Meditation (LR) 83
Tchaikovsky's Mozart (and Others') (MS) 93
On the Trail of W. A. Mozart (LR) 99
What They Saw (LR) 107
A Short Life of J. S. Bach (LR) 117
Stravinsky's Ear-stretching, Joy-giving Legacy (MS) 127
III The Recent Scene
A Visit with Lou Harrison (MS) 137
George Perle: Composing a Way of Life (LR) 143
A Quinter for American Music (MS) 151
Three American Composers in Pursuit of the White Whale (LR) 159
A Century Set to Music (MS) 169
IV Missionaries
Making America Musical: A Salute to Theodore Thomas (MS) 179
Sigmund Spaeth, Someone You Should Know (LR) 187
Isaac Stern-On Music and Life (MS) 199
B. H. Haggin the Contrarian (MS) 205
V Affairs to Remember
Loving Memories of Movie Music (LR) 217
Vienna Trilogy: Vignettes from the City of Music (LR) 223
Music, True or False (LR) 231
Why We Are Here (MS) 237
VI Postlude
The Sounds We Make (MS) 245
