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Issue 8 (August 2025) Contemplating the American Symphony Orchestra by Robert S. Freeman with Contributions by Mark Adamo, Leonard Slatkin, and Others, Edited by Rio Hartwell

Front Matter

Foreword

Chapters

Chapter 1. A Brief History of the American Symphony Orchestra and Its Future

Chapter 2. Music Education and How to Save the American Orchestra

Chapter 3. The Remarkable Career of Leonard Slatkin

Interlude. A Colloquy on the Future of Music, Music Education, and the American Orchestra

Chapter 4. A Shared Dream

Afterword

Afterword: On Reinstating an Arts Agenda in Our Schools

Reviews

The Paradox of Musical Vernaculars, by Marina Ritzarev
Jacob Gran

Nadia Boulanger: War Years in America and Her Last Decades, by James Whipple Miller
Kimberly Francis

Mahler’s Symphonic World: Music for the Age of Uncertainty, by Karol Berger
Nicolas Waldvogel

The Sound of Difference: Race, Class and the Politics of “Diversity” in Classical Music, by Kristina Kolbe
Kailan R. Rubinoff

Leonard Bernstein in Context, edited by Elizabeth A. Wells
James Leve

The Way of the Moderns: Six Perspectives on Modernism in Music, edited by Antoni Pizà
Rob Haskins

Hating Jazz, by Andrew S. Berish
Gabriel Solis

Max Bruch: Die Lorelei
Ralph P. Locke

Contributors

Contributors to Issue 8