The Harvard University Department of Music presents
Joseph Horowitz, cultural historian

"Rethinking What Orchestras Do: A Humanities Mandate"

Renowned scholar and author Joseph Horowitz is one of the most prominent and widely published writers on topics in American music. As an orchestral administrator and advisor, he has been a pioneering force in the development of thematic programming and new concert formats. His nine books—including Classical Music in America: A History, named one of the best books of 2005 by The Economist—offer a detailed history and analysis of American symphonic culture, its achievements, challenges, and prospects for the future.

Mr. Horowitz also serves as an artistic consultant for orchestras throughout the United States. For the New York Philharmonic, he inaugurated the multi-media "Inside the Music" series in 2008, writing, hosting, and producing a program on Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony; he returned to the Philharmonic for similar treatments Dvorak's New World Symphony and Brahms' First Serenade. He currently produces concerts and festivals across the country including the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Morgan Library (NYC), Stanford "Lively Arts," Georgetown University, the University of Chicago, UC-Davis, and the Strathmore Performing Arts Center. All told, Mr. Horowitz has conceived more than four dozen thematic inter-disciplinary music festivals for a variety of orchestras and performing arts institutions.

Horowitz’s blog unansweredquestion, can be found here: http://www.artsjournal.com/uq/

10/9/12: Louis C. Elson Lecture
Joseph Horowitz

John Knowles Paine Concert Hall / Harvard University

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