Michael Steinberg (4 October 1928 – 26 July 2009) was an American music critic, musicologist, and writer best known, according to San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joshua Kosman, for "the illuminating, witty and often deeply personal notes he wrote for the San Francisco Symphony's program booklets, beginning in 1979." He contributed several entries to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, wrote articles for music journals and magazine, notes for CDs, and published a number of books on music, both collected published annotations and new writings.
Life and career
Born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), Steinberg left Germany in 1939 as one of the Kindertransport child refugees and spent four years in England. He emigrated to the United States in 1943 with his brother and mother and earned a degree in musicology from Princeton University (the classical-music scholar and pianist Charles Rosen was his roommate). After Princeton, he lived two years in Italy on a Fulbright scholarship, followed by a two-year stint in Germany with the U.S. Army. Once this posting ended, he became a faculty member of the Manhattan School of Music, where he taught music history.
Michael Steinberg (born 15 May 1959) is a director, writer and producer. He is a graduate of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. He has directed three films that all premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and has written and/or produced four other award winning features since his debut in 1992. In addition, Steinberg has written, directed, and/or produced several television projects since 2000.
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Three Composers We Could Live Without
Perhaps the evil god of classical music Cancrizans, instead of eliminating all but one typical work per composer, would let us get rid of three non-essential names entirely and keep all the rest. Here's my selection, and I can't wait to see yours. Just remember: at least one of your three has to come from the meat and potatoes "classical" period--say, 1650-1900. The rest is up to you, but they should all be names that matter (somehow, to someone).
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Lily-Rose Depp and Girlfriend 070 Shake Can't Keep Their Hands To Themselves, Recently In N.Y City.
Lily-Rose Depp and Girlfriend 070 Shake Can't Keep Their Hands To Themselves During NYC Outing
The Idol's Lily-Rose Depp couldn't keep her hands off rapper 070 Shake during a recent date in New York City. See their PDA-packed outing.
Lily-Rose Depp and Girlfriend 070 Shake Can't Keep Their Hands To Themselves During NYC Outing
The Idol's Lily-Rose Depp couldn't keep her hands off rapper 070 Shake during a recent date in New York City. See their PDA-packed outing.
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Expectation VS Reality: Guitar Distortion
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Vladimir Horowitz (piano) - Arabeske, Op. 18 (Schumann) (1934)
Horowitz recorded this magical version of Schumann's 'Arabeske' on 6 May 1934.
From Wikipedia: Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (October 1 [O.S. September 18] 1903 – November 5, 1989) was a Russian-born American classical pianist and composer. Considered one of the greatest pianists of all time, he was known for his virtuoso technique, tone colour and the excitement that was engendered by his playing...
Horowitz is best known for his performances of the Romantic piano repertoire...
During World War II, Horowitz championed contemporary Russian music...
Horowitz's transcriptions of note include his composition Variations on a Theme from Carmen and The Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa. The latter became a favourite with audiences, who would anticipate its performance as...
published: 24 Oct 2021
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How to handle passive aggressive attacks? Meghan Markle is a master manipulator and this includes passive aggression. Kate Middleton handled it well, which may be a large part of why Meghan is no longer a part of the royal family. Her tactics did not work. It is very helpful to learn from examples how to navigate different social situations.
Perhaps the evil god of classical music Cancrizans, instead of eliminating all but one typical work per composer, would let us get rid of three non-essential na...
Perhaps the evil god of classical music Cancrizans, instead of eliminating all but one typical work per composer, would let us get rid of three non-essential names entirely and keep all the rest. Here's my selection, and I can't wait to see yours. Just remember: at least one of your three has to come from the meat and potatoes "classical" period--say, 1650-1900. The rest is up to you, but they should all be names that matter (somehow, to someone).
Perhaps the evil god of classical music Cancrizans, instead of eliminating all but one typical work per composer, would let us get rid of three non-essential names entirely and keep all the rest. Here's my selection, and I can't wait to see yours. Just remember: at least one of your three has to come from the meat and potatoes "classical" period--say, 1650-1900. The rest is up to you, but they should all be names that matter (somehow, to someone).
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Lily-Rose Depp and Girlfriend 070 Shake Can't Keep Their Hands To Themselves During NYC Outing
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Lily-Rose Depp and Girlfriend 070 Shake Can't Keep Their Hands To Themselves During NYC Outing
The Idol's Lily-Rose Depp couldn't keep her hands off rapper 070 Shake during a recent date in New York City. See their PDA-packed outing.
Lily-Rose Depp and Girlfriend 070 Shake Can't Keep Their Hands To Themselves During NYC Outing
The Idol's Lily-Rose Depp couldn't keep her hands off rapper 070 Shake during a recent date in New York City. See their PDA-packed outing.
Lily-Rose Depp and Girlfriend 070 Shake Can't Keep Their Hands To Themselves During NYC Outing
The Idol's Lily-Rose Depp couldn't keep her hands off rapper 070 Shake during a recent date in New York City. See their PDA-packed outing.
Lily-Rose Depp and Girlfriend 070 Shake Can't Keep Their Hands To Themselves During NYC Outing
The Idol's Lily-Rose Depp couldn't keep her hands off rapper 070 Shake during a recent date in New York City. See their PDA-packed outing.
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Horowitz recorded this magical version of Schumann's 'Arabeske' on 6 May 1934.
From Wikipedia: Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (October 1 [O.S. September 18] 1...
Horowitz recorded this magical version of Schumann's 'Arabeske' on 6 May 1934.
From Wikipedia: Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (October 1 [O.S. September 18] 1903 – November 5, 1989) was a Russian-born American classical pianist and composer. Considered one of the greatest pianists of all time, he was known for his virtuoso technique, tone colour and the excitement that was engendered by his playing...
Horowitz is best known for his performances of the Romantic piano repertoire...
During World War II, Horowitz championed contemporary Russian music...
Horowitz's transcriptions of note include his composition Variations on a Theme from Carmen and The Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa. The latter became a favourite with audiences, who would anticipate its performance as an encore. Transcriptions aside, Horowitz was not opposed to altering the text of compositions to improve what he considered 'unpianistic' writing or structural clumsiness. In 1940, with the composer's consent, Horowitz created his own performance edition of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Sonata from the 1913 original and 1931 revised versions, which pianists including Ruth Laredo and Hélène Grimaud have used. He substantially rewrote Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition to make the work more effective on the grounds that Mussorgsky was not a pianist and did not understand the possibilities of the instrument. Horowitz also altered short passages in some works, such as substituting interlocking octaves for chromatic scales in Chopin's Scherzo in B minor. This was in marked contrast to many pianists of the post–19th-century era, who considered the composer's text sacrosanct. Living composers whose works Horowitz played (among them Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Poulenc) invariably praised Horowitz's performances of their work even when he took liberties with their scores.
Horowitz's interpretations were well received by concert audiences, but not by some critics. Virgil Thomson was consistently critical of Horowitz as a 'master of distortion and exaggeration' in his reviews appearing in the New York Herald Tribune. Horowitz claimed to take Thomson's remarks as complimentary, saying that Michelangelo and El Greco were also 'masters of distortion.' In the 1980 edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Michael Steinberg wrote that Horowitz 'illustrates that an astounding instrumental gift carries no guarantee about musical understanding.' New York Times music critic Harold C. Schonberg countered that reviewers such as Thomson and Steinberg were unfamiliar with 19th-century performance practices that informed Horowitz's musical approach. Many pianists (such as Martha Argerich and Maurizio Pollini) hold Horowitz in high regard, and the pianist Friedrich Gulda referred to Horowitz as the 'over-God of the piano.'
Horowitz's style frequently involved vast dynamic contrasts, with overwhelming double-fortissimos followed by sudden delicate pianissimos. He was able to produce an extraordinary volume of sound from the piano without producing a harsh tone. He elicited an exceptionally wide range of tonal color, and his taut, precise attack was noticeable even in his renditions of technically undemanding pieces such as the Chopin Mazurkas. He is known for his octave technique; he could play precise passages in octaves extraordinarily quickly. When asked by the pianist Tedd Joselson how he practiced octaves, Horowitz gave a demonstration and Joselson reported, 'He practised them exactly as we were all taught to do.' Music critic and biographer Harvey Sachs submitted that Horowitz may have been 'the beneficiary—and perhaps also the victim—of an extraordinary central nervous system and an equally great sensitivity to tone colour.' Oscar Levant, in his book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac, wrote that Horowitz's octaves were 'brilliant, accurate and etched out like bullets.' He asked Horowitz 'whether he shipped them ahead or carried them with him on tour.'
Horowitz's hand position was unusual in that the palm was often below the level of the key surface. He frequently played chords with straight fingers, and the little finger of his right hand was often curled up until it needed to play a note; to Harold C. Schonberg, 'it was like a strike of a cobra.' For all the excitement of his playing, Horowitz rarely raised his hands higher than the piano's fallboard. Byron Janis, one of Horowitz's students, said that Horowitz tried to teach him that technique but it didn't work for him. Horowitz's body was immobile, and his face seldom reflected anything other than intense concentration.
Horowitz preferred to perform on Sunday afternoons, as he felt audiences were better rested and more attentive than on weekday evenings.
I made this transfer from an Australian pressing of HMV DA 1381. Unlike many commercial transfers, my main aim has been to preserve the piano tone rather than to eradicate surface noise.
Horowitz recorded this magical version of Schumann's 'Arabeske' on 6 May 1934.
From Wikipedia: Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (October 1 [O.S. September 18] 1903 – November 5, 1989) was a Russian-born American classical pianist and composer. Considered one of the greatest pianists of all time, he was known for his virtuoso technique, tone colour and the excitement that was engendered by his playing...
Horowitz is best known for his performances of the Romantic piano repertoire...
During World War II, Horowitz championed contemporary Russian music...
Horowitz's transcriptions of note include his composition Variations on a Theme from Carmen and The Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa. The latter became a favourite with audiences, who would anticipate its performance as an encore. Transcriptions aside, Horowitz was not opposed to altering the text of compositions to improve what he considered 'unpianistic' writing or structural clumsiness. In 1940, with the composer's consent, Horowitz created his own performance edition of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Sonata from the 1913 original and 1931 revised versions, which pianists including Ruth Laredo and Hélène Grimaud have used. He substantially rewrote Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition to make the work more effective on the grounds that Mussorgsky was not a pianist and did not understand the possibilities of the instrument. Horowitz also altered short passages in some works, such as substituting interlocking octaves for chromatic scales in Chopin's Scherzo in B minor. This was in marked contrast to many pianists of the post–19th-century era, who considered the composer's text sacrosanct. Living composers whose works Horowitz played (among them Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Poulenc) invariably praised Horowitz's performances of their work even when he took liberties with their scores.
Horowitz's interpretations were well received by concert audiences, but not by some critics. Virgil Thomson was consistently critical of Horowitz as a 'master of distortion and exaggeration' in his reviews appearing in the New York Herald Tribune. Horowitz claimed to take Thomson's remarks as complimentary, saying that Michelangelo and El Greco were also 'masters of distortion.' In the 1980 edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Michael Steinberg wrote that Horowitz 'illustrates that an astounding instrumental gift carries no guarantee about musical understanding.' New York Times music critic Harold C. Schonberg countered that reviewers such as Thomson and Steinberg were unfamiliar with 19th-century performance practices that informed Horowitz's musical approach. Many pianists (such as Martha Argerich and Maurizio Pollini) hold Horowitz in high regard, and the pianist Friedrich Gulda referred to Horowitz as the 'over-God of the piano.'
Horowitz's style frequently involved vast dynamic contrasts, with overwhelming double-fortissimos followed by sudden delicate pianissimos. He was able to produce an extraordinary volume of sound from the piano without producing a harsh tone. He elicited an exceptionally wide range of tonal color, and his taut, precise attack was noticeable even in his renditions of technically undemanding pieces such as the Chopin Mazurkas. He is known for his octave technique; he could play precise passages in octaves extraordinarily quickly. When asked by the pianist Tedd Joselson how he practiced octaves, Horowitz gave a demonstration and Joselson reported, 'He practised them exactly as we were all taught to do.' Music critic and biographer Harvey Sachs submitted that Horowitz may have been 'the beneficiary—and perhaps also the victim—of an extraordinary central nervous system and an equally great sensitivity to tone colour.' Oscar Levant, in his book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac, wrote that Horowitz's octaves were 'brilliant, accurate and etched out like bullets.' He asked Horowitz 'whether he shipped them ahead or carried them with him on tour.'
Horowitz's hand position was unusual in that the palm was often below the level of the key surface. He frequently played chords with straight fingers, and the little finger of his right hand was often curled up until it needed to play a note; to Harold C. Schonberg, 'it was like a strike of a cobra.' For all the excitement of his playing, Horowitz rarely raised his hands higher than the piano's fallboard. Byron Janis, one of Horowitz's students, said that Horowitz tried to teach him that technique but it didn't work for him. Horowitz's body was immobile, and his face seldom reflected anything other than intense concentration.
Horowitz preferred to perform on Sunday afternoons, as he felt audiences were better rested and more attentive than on weekday evenings.
I made this transfer from an Australian pressing of HMV DA 1381. Unlike many commercial transfers, my main aim has been to preserve the piano tone rather than to eradicate surface noise.
How to handle passive aggressive attacks? Meghan Markle is a master manipulator and this includes passive aggression. Kate Middleton handled it well, which may ...
How to handle passive aggressive attacks? Meghan Markle is a master manipulator and this includes passive aggression. Kate Middleton handled it well, which may be a large part of why Meghan is no longer a part of the royal family. Her tactics did not work. It is very helpful to learn from examples how to navigate different social situations.
How to handle passive aggressive attacks? Meghan Markle is a master manipulator and this includes passive aggression. Kate Middleton handled it well, which may be a large part of why Meghan is no longer a part of the royal family. Her tactics did not work. It is very helpful to learn from examples how to navigate different social situations.
Perhaps the evil god of classical music Cancrizans, instead of eliminating all but one typical work per composer, would let us get rid of three non-essential names entirely and keep all the rest. Here's my selection, and I can't wait to see yours. Just remember: at least one of your three has to come from the meat and potatoes "classical" period--say, 1650-1900. The rest is up to you, but they should all be names that matter (somehow, to someone).
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Lily-Rose Depp and Girlfriend 070 Shake Can't Keep Their Hands To Themselves During NYC Outing
The Idol's Lily-Rose Depp couldn't keep her hands off rapper 070 Shake during a recent date in New York City. See their PDA-packed outing.
Lily-Rose Depp and Girlfriend 070 Shake Can't Keep Their Hands To Themselves During NYC Outing
The Idol's Lily-Rose Depp couldn't keep her hands off rapper 070 Shake during a recent date in New York City. See their PDA-packed outing.
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Horowitz recorded this magical version of Schumann's 'Arabeske' on 6 May 1934.
From Wikipedia: Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (October 1 [O.S. September 18] 1903 – November 5, 1989) was a Russian-born American classical pianist and composer. Considered one of the greatest pianists of all time, he was known for his virtuoso technique, tone colour and the excitement that was engendered by his playing...
Horowitz is best known for his performances of the Romantic piano repertoire...
During World War II, Horowitz championed contemporary Russian music...
Horowitz's transcriptions of note include his composition Variations on a Theme from Carmen and The Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa. The latter became a favourite with audiences, who would anticipate its performance as an encore. Transcriptions aside, Horowitz was not opposed to altering the text of compositions to improve what he considered 'unpianistic' writing or structural clumsiness. In 1940, with the composer's consent, Horowitz created his own performance edition of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Sonata from the 1913 original and 1931 revised versions, which pianists including Ruth Laredo and Hélène Grimaud have used. He substantially rewrote Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition to make the work more effective on the grounds that Mussorgsky was not a pianist and did not understand the possibilities of the instrument. Horowitz also altered short passages in some works, such as substituting interlocking octaves for chromatic scales in Chopin's Scherzo in B minor. This was in marked contrast to many pianists of the post–19th-century era, who considered the composer's text sacrosanct. Living composers whose works Horowitz played (among them Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Poulenc) invariably praised Horowitz's performances of their work even when he took liberties with their scores.
Horowitz's interpretations were well received by concert audiences, but not by some critics. Virgil Thomson was consistently critical of Horowitz as a 'master of distortion and exaggeration' in his reviews appearing in the New York Herald Tribune. Horowitz claimed to take Thomson's remarks as complimentary, saying that Michelangelo and El Greco were also 'masters of distortion.' In the 1980 edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Michael Steinberg wrote that Horowitz 'illustrates that an astounding instrumental gift carries no guarantee about musical understanding.' New York Times music critic Harold C. Schonberg countered that reviewers such as Thomson and Steinberg were unfamiliar with 19th-century performance practices that informed Horowitz's musical approach. Many pianists (such as Martha Argerich and Maurizio Pollini) hold Horowitz in high regard, and the pianist Friedrich Gulda referred to Horowitz as the 'over-God of the piano.'
Horowitz's style frequently involved vast dynamic contrasts, with overwhelming double-fortissimos followed by sudden delicate pianissimos. He was able to produce an extraordinary volume of sound from the piano without producing a harsh tone. He elicited an exceptionally wide range of tonal color, and his taut, precise attack was noticeable even in his renditions of technically undemanding pieces such as the Chopin Mazurkas. He is known for his octave technique; he could play precise passages in octaves extraordinarily quickly. When asked by the pianist Tedd Joselson how he practiced octaves, Horowitz gave a demonstration and Joselson reported, 'He practised them exactly as we were all taught to do.' Music critic and biographer Harvey Sachs submitted that Horowitz may have been 'the beneficiary—and perhaps also the victim—of an extraordinary central nervous system and an equally great sensitivity to tone colour.' Oscar Levant, in his book The Memoirs of an Amnesiac, wrote that Horowitz's octaves were 'brilliant, accurate and etched out like bullets.' He asked Horowitz 'whether he shipped them ahead or carried them with him on tour.'
Horowitz's hand position was unusual in that the palm was often below the level of the key surface. He frequently played chords with straight fingers, and the little finger of his right hand was often curled up until it needed to play a note; to Harold C. Schonberg, 'it was like a strike of a cobra.' For all the excitement of his playing, Horowitz rarely raised his hands higher than the piano's fallboard. Byron Janis, one of Horowitz's students, said that Horowitz tried to teach him that technique but it didn't work for him. Horowitz's body was immobile, and his face seldom reflected anything other than intense concentration.
Horowitz preferred to perform on Sunday afternoons, as he felt audiences were better rested and more attentive than on weekday evenings.
I made this transfer from an Australian pressing of HMV DA 1381. Unlike many commercial transfers, my main aim has been to preserve the piano tone rather than to eradicate surface noise.
How to handle passive aggressive attacks? Meghan Markle is a master manipulator and this includes passive aggression. Kate Middleton handled it well, which may be a large part of why Meghan is no longer a part of the royal family. Her tactics did not work. It is very helpful to learn from examples how to navigate different social situations.
Michael Steinberg (4 October 1928 – 26 July 2009) was an American music critic, musicologist, and writer best known, according to San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joshua Kosman, for "the illuminating, witty and often deeply personal notes he wrote for the San Francisco Symphony's program booklets, beginning in 1979." He contributed several entries to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, wrote articles for music journals and magazine, notes for CDs, and published a number of books on music, both collected published annotations and new writings.
Life and career
Born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), Steinberg left Germany in 1939 as one of the Kindertransport child refugees and spent four years in England. He emigrated to the United States in 1943 with his brother and mother and earned a degree in musicology from Princeton University (the classical-music scholar and pianist Charles Rosen was his roommate). After Princeton, he lived two years in Italy on a Fulbright scholarship, followed by a two-year stint in Germany with the U.S. Army. Once this posting ended, he became a faculty member of the Manhattan School of Music, where he taught music history.