Joseph Horowitz: 5 books

During the first half of the twentieth century—decades of war and revolution in Europe—an "intellectual migration" relocated thousands of artists and thinkers to the United States, including some of Europe's supreme performing artists, filmmakers, playwrights, and choreographers. For...

Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: "If the Met’s screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890s) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisions...

A revelatory history of the operatic masterpiece that both made and destroyed Rouben Mamoulian, its director and unsung hero. "Bring my goat!" Porgy exclaims in the final scene of Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess. Bess, whom he loves, has left for New York City, and he’s determined...

Dieses Werk hat weitgehend den Charakter eines Selbstzeugnisses. Es ist aber nicht nur Rückblick auf ein langes, von vielen Wechselfällen geprägtes Leben und eine einzigartige Konzertkarriere. Claudio Arrau vermittelt zugleich Wesentliches über Fragen der Spieltechnik und werkgetreuer Interpretation,...

The Classic of Empowered Living, Now in a Special Concise Edition! Do you sense the existence of a greater power inside you? You are right. You will discover your true potential in this unique abridgement of the masterwork of higher living: Joseph Murphy’s The Power of Your Subconscious Mind. In...