...Kevin Bartig In 1929 and 1932, the influential New York Times music critic Olin Downes toured the Soviet Union as a guest of the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), an arm of the Soviet government charged with cultural diplomacy. During these visits he attended...

... for their native tradition on a par with those of France and Italy. 25 Gaetano Donizetti Vienna opera cosmopolitanism nationalism music criticism On April 4, 1835, a performance of Gaetano Donizetti's Anna Bolena took the court opera house in Vienna—the Kärntnertortheater—by storm...

... music criticism reception history politics Indeed, for the critics who first formulated ideas about a specifically musical expressionism in print, it was best represented not by vocal and stage works but by purely instrumental, so-called “absolute” music, especially chamber music with apparently...

... musical style music criticism evolutionism birds and music animals and music In 1913, a student of Guido Adler made a curious comparison between the musical ornaments of the Baroque period and the drawn-out trill of a nightingale. 1 The author, Robert Lach, set the nightingale's song alongside...