Composers

Box-Seat Drivers

From complaint letters addressed to the New York Philharmonic and subsequent responses, stored in the orchestra’s archive. The letters are dated from 1952–1953. Dimitri Mitropoulos was the music director of…

The Notes of Patrick Modiano

By Peter De Jonge,

A young writer finds his voice on the radio

A bad day for the young composer

By Ernst Toch,

Twilight of the tenured composer

By Richard Sennett,

The new music and its public

Untitled

Art by William Bramhall, David Suter,

“You waited until you were ten to compose ^Uthat!”

Drawn by Charles G. Sauers,

On manners, music and morality

By Igor Stravinsky,

An interview with Igor Stravinsky

What prodigies are made of

By Harper’s Staff,

The musical sins of the Soviet fathers

By Harper’s Staff,

The last summer

By David Armine Howarth,

The far-out pianist

By Harold C. Schonberg,

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