Index to Editorials

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)