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Classical music in America.(Letter to the Editor)
What mainly seems to bother Martin Bernheimer in his "review" of my Classical Music in America [Books, Feb.] is that I hold opinions with which he disagrees. My book makes no claim to objectivity (like any history, it's interpretive), and its audacity is not unintentional (conventional wisdom is not necessarily correct wisdom).
Bernheimer holds up to ridicule my claim that Anton Seidl impacted on opera in America "more profoundly than any conductor before or since." He does not even take a stab at explaining where that opinion comes from. Seidl was the indispensable central player in American Wagnerism, which dominated our music-making and deeply inflected our intellectual life for decades at the close of the nineteenth century. What other conductor of opera in America arguably impacted so persuasively on American culture? I cannot even think of a candidate.
That the aged Toscanini ...
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