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Samuel Lipman

Samuel Lipman was publisher of The New Criterion. A distinguished concert pianist, Lipman wrote music criticism for Commentary and served on the National Council on the Arts. He passed away in 1994.

Articles

On hearing Liszt live (Music) , February 1994, 46

Lincoln Center's chamber music problems (Music) , January 1994, 43
On the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at 25.

New worlds & old (Music) , October 1993, 39
On three CDs of contemporary music from New World Records & a reissue of performances by tenor Jan Kiepura.

Who's killing our symphony orchestras? (Features) , September 1993, 13
On the American Symphony Orchestra League report Americanizing the American Orchestra.

To Washington by moonbeam (Books) , June 1993, 76
A review of Leaving Town Alive by John Frohnmayer.

Leon Botstein attempts to save music (Music) , April 1993, 44

Mitsuko Uchida at Carnegie Hall (Music) , February 1993, 48

Music “Behind the Scenes” (Notebook) , January 1993, 77

The new empty Glass (Music) , December 1992, 38
On The Voyage by Philip Glass.

On seeing (Music) , November 1992, 42

The crisis in concert programming (Features) , June 1992, 23

The charms of Darius Milhaud (Music) , June 1992, 61

A tale of two orchestras (Music) , May 1992, 44
Why conductors make a difference.

Egon Petri: the musician as virtuoso (Music) , April 1992, 45

Old Mozart and the new past (Features) , March 1992, 29

Menuhin: the child, the genius, the man (Music) , February 1992, 42

Rehearing yesterday’s violinists (Features) , December 1991, 19

Music as a vocation (Features) , December 1991, 8

The culture of classical music today (Features) , September 1991, 13

Said’s music (Features) , June 1991, 17
On Musical Elaborations by Edward Said.

Mengelberg at the Philarmonic (Music) , 44

Mengelberg at the Philharmonic (Music) , May 1991, 44

Sellars trumps Mozart (Music) , April 1991, 37
On the PBS telecasts of three Mozart operas produced by Peter Sellars.

Finding Cortot’s place (Music) , March 1991, 59

Shostakovich decoded? (Music) , February 1991, 50
On The New Shostakovich by Ian MacDonald.

Walter Goldwater: a memoir (Features) , January 1991, 14

German music in America and England (Notebook) , January 1991, 85

Weisgall's marvelous Six Characters (Music) , November 1990, 52

Shorter notice (Books) , November 1990, 83
A review of Conversations With Von Karajan by Richard Osborne

The "Ring", the Metropolitan Opera, and James Levine (Features) , October 1990, 40

Shorter notice (Books) , September 1990, 78
Of From Russia to the West by Nathan Milstein & Solomon Volkov.

The Philharmonic chooses a music director (Music) , June 1990, 56
On Kurt Masur.

Opera and politics (Features) , April 1990, 33
A presentation at the 1990 meeting of Opera America.

A recital of Pollini’s (Music) , March 1990, 53

Refurbishing Caruso and company (Music) , February 1990, 52

Vladimir Horowitz 1904-1989 (Music) , January 1990, 53

Redefining culture and democracy (Features) , December 1989, 10

New life from old records (Music) , November 1989, 53

Marian Anderson: the diva from Philadelphia (Music) , October 1989, 43

Reflections on Bach (Music) , September 1989, 50

The great music director hunt (Music) , June 1989, 40

Toscanini and the love of great music (Music) , May 1989, 18
On Understanding Toscanini by Joseph Horowitz.

Karajan: the last time? (Music) , April 1989, 42

American quartet music, old and new (Features) , March 1989, 15

Pierre Monteux and the criterion of success (Features) , February 1989, 17

New York Music: the crisis continues (Music) , January 1989, 46

The Harvard cage (Music) , December 1988, 44
On John Cage’s Norton Lectures at Harvard.

Leadership in democratic culture: the case of Nancy Hanks (Features) , November 1988, 1

The muse under Mussolini (Music) , October 1988, 46
On Music in Fascist Italy by Harvey Sachs.

The NEA: looking back & looking ahead (Features) , September 1988, 6

Music & the good life: an exchange (with Joseph W. Polisi & James Sloan Allen) (Features) , June 1988, 1

Kurt Herbert Adler, 1905–1988 (Music) , April 1988, 71

The Flagstad legend (Features) , March 1988, 30
On the Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad.

Ruminations on the romantic piano (Music) , February 1988, 55

“Is the symphony orchestra dead?”: an exchange (with Ernest Fleischmann) (Features) , December 1987, 38

Juilliard life and death (Books) , December 1987, 78
A review of Nothing But the Best by Judith Kogan.

Doing new music, doing American music (Features) , November 1987, 5

The violinist of the age (Music) , October 1987, 53
On Josef Hassid.

Is the symphony orchestra dead? (Features) , September 1987, 1

James Huneker & America’s musical coming of age (Features) , June 1987, 4

Sad thoughts on Walter Busterkeys, a.k.a. Liberace (Music) , April 1987, 43

Schnabel redivivus (Music) , March 1987, 49

A dissent on Menotti (Music) , January 1987, 49
On the premiere of Goya at the Kennedy Center.

The Berlin Philharmonic without Karajan (Music) , December 1986, 52

The Met’s failed Walküre (Music) , November 1986, 52

Zeroing in on Karajan (Music) , October 1986, 52

The pupils of Clara Schumann and the uses of tradition (Music) , September 1986, 60

Art and patronage today (Features) , May 1986, 6

A great Spanish pianist (Music) , March 1986, 61
On Ricardo Viñes.

But if the artist fail? (Features) , February 1986, 1
On the failure of musical talent.

Casanova at the City Opera (Music) , January 1986, 39
On Dominick Argento’s Casanova.

Eastward the course of (Western) music (Music) , December 1985, 55
On the NHK Orchestra of Japan in New York.

Remembering “Parsifal” (Features) , November 1985, 21

When the critic criticized (Music) , October 1985, 64
On The Music Monster by Charles Reid, a biography of James William Davison of the London Times.

What the Cliburn contest thinks of pianists (Music) , September 1985, 48

Music and musical life: the road to now (Features) , August 1985
From a special issue printed in the Summer of 1985 entitiled "The Arts in America: 1945-1985." Issue includes special essays by Hilton Kramer, Bruce Bawer, Samuel Lipman, and Robert Richman.

Lenny on our minds (Features) , June 1985, 1
On Leonard Bernstein.

Jarrett joins the Bach parade (Music) , May 1985, 41

Live from the Met (Music) , April 1985, 47

Einstein’s long march to Brooklyn (Features) , February 1985, 15

Copland’s world (Features) , January 1985, 1

Steinway on the block (Notebook) , January 1985, 75

Ivy Litvinov (Letters) , January 1985, 87

Pops in Portland, “Elektra” in San Francisco (Music) , December 1984, 41

Cultural policy: whither America, whither government? (Features) , November 1984, 7

Stravinsky's “Rake,” City Opera's progress (Music) , November 1984, 53

Ivy Litvinov: the commissar's wife (Features) , September 1984, 15

The case of Ivo Pogorelich (Music) , June 1984, 52

A note from the publisher (Theater) , May 1984, 65
On the banning of Mimi Kramer from the “Third Night Press List” of the League of New York Theaters & Producers.

Mme Pierre Monteux (Notebook) , May 1984, 88

Growing up with old records (Features) , April 1984, 11

Opera 1984: dead or alive? (Features) , March 1984, 6

Music in partibus infidelium (Features) , February 1984, 9

Marilyn Horne’s great American songbook (Notebook) , February 1984, 85

To teach the administrators art (Notebook) , December 1983, 89

The other Mahler (Books) , November 1983, 64

Funding the arts: who decides? (Features) , October 1983, 1

The Philharmonic’s new horizons (Features) , September 1983, 43

Blitzstein’s cradle (Music) , June 1983, 68
On The Cradle Will Rock.

PBS flogs the arts (Notebook) , May 1983, 80

Room on the podium? (Notebook) , April 1983, 89

The real Vladimir Horowitz? (Music) , March 1983, 48
On Horowitz by Glenn Plaskin.

Getting on the record (Music) , January 1983, 47
A look at the history of classical recordings and the producers behind them.

Berlin on two coasts (Music) , December 1982, 60
On the Berlin Philharmonic under Karajan in New York & California.

Opera appreciation, Metropolitan-style (Music) , November 1982, 63

Glenn Gould (Notebook) , November 1982, 91

Stravinsky: re-recording history (Music) , October 1982, 57

American opera: honors and performances (Music) , September 1982, 57

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