25 Greatest Recordings–M/J 2005
25 Years as Editor–S/O 2012
Absorption–N/D 2012
Access to Great Music (Haldeman) M/A 2005
Acoustics–J/A 2016
Aesthetics & Criticism–M/J 2012
The Advent of CD–M/A 1990
Against Fads–N/D 1998
A Heritage Preserved (Barker) M/A 2015
Air Heads (Classical Radio) M/A 1992
Art of Criticism 1: Sound–J/F 1988; J/A 1996
Art of Criticism 2: the Nature of Music–M/A 1988; J/A 1999
Art of Criticism 3: Evaluating Performances–N/D 1988, S/O 2009
Art of Criticism 4–J/A 1989, S/O 2009
Art, Serenity, & Aesthetic Growth–M/J 1999
Attentiveness & Judgement–J/A 2006
Attentiveness Revisited–M/A 2011
Attracting a Young Crowd–N/D 2011
Astringency–S/O 2015
Baroque Music Today–J/F 1989
Beauty; Irrational Feminism; Epidemic–M/J 2020
Biases; News–N/D 2021
Big Business & Technology–S/O 2021
Black Musicians & Marketing–J/A 1997
Browsing–M/A 2012
A Brief Account of Music History–S/O 1998
Can Words Describe Music? (Haldeman) S/O 2002
Catalogs & Computers–J/F 2004
CD Longevity (McKelvey) M/A 1992; S/O 1994
CD Recording & Copying (McKelvey) J/F 2000
CD Versus Digital–S/O 22
Celebrity–M/A 2013
Chantsploitation (Barker) M/A 1995
Children at Concerts: M/J 2015
Christmas–N/D 1997; M/A 2008
Christmas music, “news”, smart phones–M/A 2017
Christmas at the Symphony; Youth–J/F 2020
Classical Radio–N/D 2004
Classical, Rock, & Youth–J/F 2002
Closet Conservative–N/D 2016
Composing & Inspiration–M/A 2021
Computer as Bully–M/J 2004
Computer-Generated Performances (Keaton) N/D 2011
Concert Behavior–M/A 1996
Concert Life–M/J 2013
Concert Publicity; Competitons–M/A 2019
Concert Rituals & Music Listings–M/J 1999; N/D 2017
Concert Tickets & Times–M/A 1994
Concerts vs Records–J/A 1995; M/A 2022
Conducting Orthodoxies–M/A 2014
Conformity of Thought–J/F 2001
Contemporary Music–J/F 1991
Controlling & Controls–M/A 2010
The Cost of Concerts–S/O 1998
Criticism; Concert Cancellations; Epidemic–J/A 2020
Cruelty of Reviewing–J/A 1995; M/A 2022
The Cult of Youth–M/A 2008
Cultural Suicide–J/F 1994; M/A 2007
Cultural Suicide II–M/J 1995–N/D 2007
Dealing with Legalism & Police–N/D 2012
The Death of Service–J/A 2003
The Defeat of the Telephone–M/A 2002
Defending the Word Police–M/A 2012 & N/D 2015
The Decline of Quality–M/A 2008
Diversity–S/O 2016
More About Diversity–M/J 2019
Diversity Gone Wild–M/J 2021
Do You Understand Music?–M/A 2012
Does Quality Have a Future?–M/A 1997; M/J 2010
Don’t Educate Us; Entertain Us–S/O 2010
Downhill–S/O 2019
Downward Spirals–M/J 2015
Education & Culture–M/J 2002
Elitism–J/A 1990; J/A 1995; M/A 2022
Elitism Revisited–M/A 1998
Elitism Revisited Thrice–M/J 2003
European Label-Hopping–N/D 1997
Evaluating Orchestras–M/J 1996
Everything is Entertainment–M/J 1992
Facing Reality–J/A 2014
Fads & Trends; Capitalism; Bureaucracy–J/A 2007
Fame and Marketing–N/D 1990
Fate of the CD–S/O 2019
Faust; Mass Marketing–S/O 1990
Favorite Pianists–N/D 2012
Fear–J/F 22
Feeling–M/J 1993
Film Music (Koldys+) M/A 1996
The Flood (Haldeman) S/O 2004
Folk Music–M/A 1999
Freedom? Progress?–J/A 2015
Funding & “Funning” the Arts–N/D 1995
The Future? (Chakwin) S/O 2003
The Future of the CD (McKelvey) Sept/Oct 2008
The Gender of Songs (P Miller) S/O 1989
General (Recordings) M/J 1988
Getting Around–Nov/Dec 2009
The Golden Age–J/A 1992
Governing by Committee J/A 2012
Great Music–M/A 2018
The Great Music Director Search–M/A 2000
The Great Sell-out–M/J 2016
Gullibility–M/J 2011
Has Western Music Become Too Intellectual? (Baksa) N/D 1999
How to Be an Impressive Writer–M/A 2001
How Will Record Stores Survive? (Haldeman) S/O 2001
Ideological Thinking–N/D 2019
The Impoverishment of American Culture (Gioia) J/F 2008
The Internet–J/A 2016
Is the Internet the End of Records?–S/O 2007
Jaywalking in Seattle–J/F 1996
The Land of the Obvious–N/D 2010
Land of the Timid–M/A 2016
The Magazine Business–S/O 1993; Nov/Dec 2006
The Majority is Not Always Right–M/A 2003
Majority Vote–N/D 1993
Making Human Contact–M/A 1993
Marketing & Its Discontents–J/F 2010
Marketing is More Than That–M/J 1997
Marketing of Records–J/A 1988
Marketing Revisited–J/F 1999
Marketing the Symphony–M/J 1994
More Musings on Marketing–N/D 1996
Marketing Musings–M/J 2004
Market rules–M/J 2017
Mass Retailing–J/A 2012
Masterpieces?–S/O 1994
Minor Correction for a Major Problem (Gorman) N/D 22
Minority Interests–J/A 2021
Minors and Majorities (DeJong) N/D 1993
Moderation & Junk–J/A 2017
Modernism & Complexity–N/D 2000 & S/O 2018
Multiculturalism–J/F 1993; N/D 2013
Museum Music–S/O 1988
Music and the Emotions–J/A 2019
Music and Silence–J/A 1998
Music is Color Blind–S/O 1997
Music Critic and Reader (Locke); Why? N/D 2020
New American Heritage Dictionary–S/O 2012
New Music–S/O 2016
The New; News–M/J 2001
New Symphonies by Old Masters?–M/A 1989
Noise–J/F 2014 & S/O 2019
The Nostalgia Trap–J/A 1994
Odds and Ends–J/A 2001; N/D 2014
On Being a Minority–N/D 1992; N/D 2010
On Culture (Barker) J/F 2003
On Maturity–J/A 2009
Opera Surtitles–S/O 1991
Orchestra Deficits–J/F 2013
Orchestra Finances–N/D 2003
Orchestral Prostitution, Noise, Holidays–N/D 2018
Orchestras in Trouble (French) S/O 2014
Orchestras, Radio, Top 25–M/J 2005
Pandemic & Rap–J/F 2021
Patterns in Performance–J/A 2007
Performance Practices–M/J 2004
Period Performance (with Laird) M/A 1991
Piano Performance: Scientific Perspective (Repp) J/A 2020
PPP & True Authenticity–J/A 2000
PPP Revisited–M/J 2006
Popular Culture & High Culture–N/D 2000
Publicity–S/O 2015
Publicity, Change, Diversity, Ethics–J/A 2018
Reader Survey Results–M/J & J/A 1991; N/D 1994
The Recording Industry–J/A 2002
Recording or performance (guest editorial): M/J 2017
Recordings & Numbers–J/A 2013
Reflections on the Ides of March, M/J 2019–French
Relevance M/J 2022
Repertory for Conductors–N/D 1998
Resurrection of an Era, N/D 2019: Barker (reprint from 1957)
The Romantics–S/O 2003
Romantic Music–N/D 2004
Security Sickness; Copyright Laws–J/F 2006
Seeking Out the Best Things in Life–J/A 1997; N/D 2014
Selling the Orchestra–S/O 2005
Sexual Harrassment–M/A 2020
Silence is Bliss–S/O 2016
The Sound in Carnegie Hall (D Vaughan) M/J 1990
The Sound vs the Music (Morin) M/A 1994
Sound Art & Programming–S/O 22
On Spiritual Matters–J/A 2004
The Standing Ovation–J/A 1997; M/A 2013
The Stupidity of Sports–J/A 2011
Surtitles, Grandeur in Music, Peer Pressure–S/O 2000
Talking to Audiences–J/A 2014
Taste & Genetics–J/A 2005
Technical Difficulties–J/A 2010
Technology–J/F 2013; J/F 2014; S/O 2022
Technology Reigns–S/O 2015
Things British–J/F 1996
Thoughts on Listening to Music–Kitezh–M/A 1996
Thoughts & Observations–N/D 2008
Top 25 of Reviewers–N/D 2012
Tradeoffs–M/J 2012
Tradition, Vibrato, and Flow–M/J 1989
Travel–J/F 2014
TV–M/A 1999; M/J 2014
TV and Publicity–J/F 2007
TV, Solstice, Criticism–M/J 2000
12-Tone Music (O’Connor) S/O 2013
Two Book Reviews: S/O 2017
Two Strikes for American Orchestras–J/F 1997
The Unkindest Cuts (Haller) N/D 1992
Unknown Composers: Golubev–M/A 2019, Estep
Victims of Technology–M/J 2009
Vocal Recordings & Singers (P Miller) N/D 1991
Voices–N/D 2005
Voices of Stone & Steel (Lehman) S/O 2011
Ways to Communicate–J/F 2012
Weather Forecasts–J/A 2012
What is Classical Music?–N/D 1991
What Makes a Good Record Reviewer?–M/J 1998
What to Do with Your Old LPs (Lehman) J/A 2008
Where to Begin?–N/D 2010
Who’s the Best? (orchestra)–J/A 1993
Why Classical Music Still Matters (Gimbel) M/J 2008
Within Reach of All–J/F 2009
Woke–M/J 2022, 166; J/A 2022
Working with Computers–N/D 2001
Writing & Journalism; Artist Biographies–S/O 2020
Young People–M/A 2014
Zero Tolerance and Church Windows–M/J 2018
CONDUCTOR PROFILES
Ormandy Nov/Dec 1999
Ansermet Sept/Oct 1992
Beecham & Toscanini S/0 1990
Bernstein Nov/Dec 1990
Karl Bohm May/June 1993
Herbert von Karajan S/O 1989 & 1990
Bruno Walter J/A 1995
(see also Historic Conductors Overview)