🎭 Culture Apr 27, 2026 · Joseph Horowitz

The People’s Critic

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Defending the Music: Michael Steinberg at the Boston Globe 1964–1976 edited by Susan Feder, Jacob Jahiel, and Marc Mandel; Oxford University Press, 648 pp., $34.97
New York City at the close of the 19th century thrilled to an early heyday in the erratic history of American classical music. The presiding conductor, Anton Seidl, was a charismatic protégé of Richard Wagner. More than leading American premieres of five Wagner operas at the Metropolitan (and espousing performances of the composer in

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