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.