DAVID BLUM

Musician and Dreamer

ARTICLES

Published in The New York Times: Arts and Leisure

  • September 22, 1991 Playing in Memory of a Master, Re: Seiji Ozawa honors Hiden Saito

  • March 29, 1992 Where the Audience Is the Star, Re: Opera audience in Parma

  • August 16, 1992 Teaching the Clarinet to Speak with His Voice, Re: Richard Stoltzman

  • July 18, 1993 Where a Farmer Named Verdi Occasionally Composed Music, Re: Verdi at Busseto

  • April 24, 1994 Another Lark from Moonstone, Re: Dawn Upshaw

  • June 19, 1994 Bucking the Biggest Odds of All, Re: Jeffrey Tate

  • October 30, 1994 Tone Frescoes by an Old Master, Re: Handel

  • July 23, 1995 A Diva Renews Her Ties to the Earth and Reflects, Re: Birgit Nilsson

  • August 6, 1995 No One Could Tell a Musical Tale Better, Re: Lotte Lehmann

  • March 24, 1996 Retrieving a Lost World of Sensibility and Graciousness, Re: Beecham recordings

  • August 17, 1997 In Mozart Operas, Light and Shade in Sight and Sound, Re: John Eliot Gardner

  • December 21, 1997 He Could Make Madame Bovary Swoon, Re: Donizetti

Published in The New York Times: Book Review

  • November 29, 1992 ‘Carnegie Hall All But Collapsed’, Re: Vladimir Horowitz

  • July 11, 1993 Sex, Triads and Chromaticism, Re: Benjamin Britten

  • May 28, 1995 Play It Again, Re: Charles Rosen and “Romantic” music

Published in The New York Times: Classical Music

  • January 16, 1994 Emotions Can Be Dangerous or Be Put to Expressive Use, Re: Karl Ulrich Schnabel

  • July 24, 1994 At a Rustic Retreat, Sibelius Explored His Many Selves, Re: Jean Sibelius 

Published in The New Yorker

  • May 1, 1989 A Process Larger Than Oneself, Re: Yo-Yo Ma

  • April 30, 1990 Walking to the Pavilion, Re: Jeffrey Tate

  • February 4, 1991 A Gold Coin, Re: Josef Gingold

  • June 29, 1992 Going to the Core, Re: Richard Goode  

Published in The Strad

  • May 1988 Alto Artistry, Re: Bruno Guiranna

  • November 1988 Cellist and Connoisseur, Re: Janos Scholz

  • February 1989 Nature’s Gift, Re: Kyung-Wha Chung

  • March 1989 The Oistrakh Tradition, Re: Igor Oistrakh

  • December 1989 The Ageless Spirit, Re: Shinichi Suzuki

  • November 1990 Michael Tree

  • May 1992 Beethoven’s Cello Sonata Opus 102 No. 2, Re: Bernard Greenhouse

  • July 1992 Fantastic Voyage of Discovery: Thoughts on Schubert’s Fantasie in C Major, Re: Arnold Steinhardt

  • May 1993 One of the New York Giants, Re: Felix Galimir

  • October 1993 Musical Pictures to the Deity, Re: Albert Schweitzer

  • November 1994 A golden link to the past, Re: Josef Gingold

Published in the BBC Music Magazine

  • November 1994 Hands-on experience, Re: Richard Goode
  • May 1995 Without this man, the world might never have heard some of the greatest works of Bartok, Martinu, Strauss, Stravinsky, … Re: Paul Sacher (at 89)
  • October 1995 The Art of Simplicity, Re: Pablo Casals
  • April 1996 The Healing Power of Music: Throughout his battle with cancer, conductor and author David Blum has drawn comfort and strength from a lifetime’s devotion to music. Here he describes his medical and spiritual journey. 
  • June 1996 The Sounds of Silence, David Blum explores the ways the great composers used silence as the ultimate tool for self-expression.
  • August 1996 As Sure As Shaw, Re: George Bernard Shaw’s writings on music
  • September 1996 A Quest For The Perfect Ninth, Re: Beethoven’s Choral Symphony
  • July 1997 The man who brought composers back to life, Re: Artur Schnabel

Published in Music and Musicians

  • December 1989 The Gift of Rain, Re: Herbert von Karajan

Published in Music Journal

  • February 1990 Haydn, with feeling

You are listening to the 4th Movement (Allegro Molto), from Haydn's Symphony No. 39 in G minor, conducted by David Blum with the Esterhazy Orchestra.

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