Mozart & Co. at the Salzburg Festival
A report.
Magazine: Music
The American Songbook
This supreme expression of American confidence and creativity seemed to come out of nowhere.
Louis Armstrong’s ‘When You’re Smiling’
Louis Armstrong’s recording of ‘When You’re Smiling’ is the all-American song.
Motown
Forget all of the recent Woodstock nostalgia: The Motown sound dominated a decade.
Irving Berlin
Everything flowed into the American song through Berlin, creating a great melting pot of melody.
Michael Tippett’s ‘Timeless Music in Time’
Remembering the late composer’s achievement.
Berlioz Time
On composer Hector Berlioz.
Bon-Bons for All
Jay Nordlinger on encores in the concert hall and opera house.
A Star of Vietnam
The story of Mai Khoi, dissident singer-songwriter.
Music Too
Robert Dean Lurie reviews Anything for a Hit: An A&R Woman’s Story of Surviving the Music Industry, by Dorothy Carvello.