by Alex Ross
Lully, Jean-Baptiste: Armide; Ballet d’Alcidiane; Cadmus
Lupu, Radu
Luther, Martin
Lutosławski, Witold; Symphony No. 3
Lux, Kendall
Lyttleton, Humphrey
MACBA
Ma, Yo-Yo; on Marlboro
Maazel, Lorin
Machaut, Guillaume de
Mackay, Clarence
Mackay, Ellin
Mackerras, Charles
Madonna; “Like a Prayer,”
madrigal
Mafa people
Magnetophon
Mahler, Gustav; argues with Brahms; as conductor; Symphony No. 1; Symphony No. 2; Symphony No. 3; Symphony No. 5; Symphony No. 6; Symphony No. 7, Symphony No. 8; Symphony No. 9,
Maier, Klaus
Malcolm X
Malcolm X Shabazz High School
Manchester Free Trade Hall
Maneval, Philip
Mann, Thomas; Buddenbrooks; Doctor Faustus
Manson, Charles
Mantua
Manze, Andrew
Mao Zedong
Marcus, Greil
Marlboro College
Marlboro Music: character of; Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy at; concept of; founding of; pranks at
Marlow, Heath
Marsalís, Wynton
Marshall, Elí
Martin,Steve (actor and writer)
Martin, Steve (publicist)
Marx Brothers: A Night at the Opera
Mason, Daniel Gregory
Massey, Graham
Massive Attack
Master of Delft
Matchbox Twenty
Matmos
Maverick Concert Hall
Mayo, Keyshawn
Mayrhofer, Johann
McCartney, Paul
McClary, Susan
McGegan, Nicholas
McGrann, Molly
McKay, Elizabeth
McTell, Blind Willie
Medici, Ferdinando de’
Medici, Francesco de’
Medici, Lorenzo de’
Medúlla (Björk)
Mehldau, Brad
Mehta, Zubin
Melba, Nellie
Mellers, Wilfrid
Mellman, Kenny
Melvin, Sheila
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Mercury (label)
Merman, Ethel
Merrill, Bob
Merzbow
mesostic
Messiaen, Olivier; and Björk; La Nativité du Seigneur; and Radiohead; Saint Francis of Assisi; Turangalîla Symphony
Metropolitan Opera; Anderson at; and Verdi
Metternich, Clemens von
Michener, Charles
Milanov, Zinka
Miller, Jonathan
Milner, Greg
Milton, John
Mingus, Charles
minimalism
Minnesota Orchestra
Minogue, Kylie
Mirren, Helen
Mission of Burma
Mitchell, Joan
Mitchell, Joni
Mitchell, Roscoe
Mitropoulos, Dimitri
Mode (label)
Mondrian, Piet
Monk, Meredith; Dolmen Music
Monteverdi, Claudio; and chaconne; and lament; last works of of; and opera; recordings of; works of: The Coronation of Poppea; Lamento della ninfa; Orfeo; The Return of Ulysses; Zefiro torna
Montgomery, Jessie
Moore, David Allen
Moore, Garry
Moore, Jihad
Moore, John
Moore, Thurston
Morley, Thomas
Moyse, Blanche Honegger
Moyse, Louise
Moyse, Marcel
Mozart, Constanze
Mozart, Leopold
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; attitude toward audience; and Cage; childhood of; images of; in London; in Paris; personality of; played at Dylan shows; quarrel with Archbishop of Salzburg; recordings of; relationship with father; and so-called “Mozart Effect,” stylistic development of; and Uchida; working methods of; works of: The Abduction from the Seraglio; Andante in C (K. la); Clarinet Concerto; La clemenza di Tito; Contredanse No. 4 in F; Così fan tutte; Divertimento in E-flat for String Trio; Don Giovanni; La finta semplice; Idomeneo; Leek mich im Arsch; London Sketchbook; Lucio Silla; The Magic Flute; The Marriage of Figaro; Mass in C Minor; Piano Concerto No. 9, ; Piano Concerto No. 11, ; Piano Concerto No. 12, ; Piano Concerto No. 13, Piano Concerto No. 21, Piano Concerto No. 23, ; Piano Concerto No. 27 ; Piano Sonata No. 8 in A Minor; Quartet No. 19, “Dissonant,” ; Requiem; Sacramental Litany; Sinfonia Concertante; Sonata for Two Pianos; String Quintet No. 1 in B-flat; String Quintet No. 5 in D, ; Symphony No. 25, ; Symphony No. 31; Symphony No. 35; Symphony No. 36; Symphony No. 38; Symphony No. 41, ; violin concertos
MP3
MTV
Muhly, Nico
Mull, Martin
Muller-Hartmann, Robert
Mullin, Jack
Munch, Charles
Murder on the Orient Express (Lumet)
Muse
Museum of Modern Art
music education, decline of
Musici
Mussorgsky, Modest: Boris Godunov
Muti, Riccardo
Muzak
Muzijevic, Pedja
“My Country, ’Tis of Thee,”
“My Way” (François and Revaux)
Naegele, Philipp
Nagano, Kent
Nancarrow, Conlon
Napoleon, see Bonaparte, Napoleon
Nasseri, Soheil
National Center for the Performing Arts (Beijing)
National Conservatory (New York)
National Endowment for the Arts
NBC
NBC Symphony
Nelson, Willie
Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
Neuhaus, Max: Times Square
New Albion (label)
Newbould, Brian
New England Conservatory
New Jersey Symphony
New School
New World (label)
New York (magazine)
New York City: Björk in; Cage in; Chinese composers in; classical music in; Dylan in; Kiki and Herb in
New York City Opera
New Yorker, The
New York Grand Opera
New York Mycological Society
New York Philharmonic; and Bernstein; and Borda; and Boulez; in China; and Gilbert; and Salonen
New York Review of Books, The
New York Times, The; and Cage
New York Tribune, The
Nielsen, Carl
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Night at the Opera, A (Marx Brothers)
924 Gilman Street
Nirvana: Nevermind; and the Pixies; “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” ; and Sonic Youth
Nixon, Richard
No Child Left Behind
Noiray, Michel
Nonesuch Records
Norman, Jessye
Norton, Charles Eliot, lectures
Noseda, Gianandrea
“Not Dark Yet” (Dylan)
Notley, Margaret
Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
Nuttall, Geoff
Oakland Tribune
Oakland Youth Orchestra
Obama, Barack
Oberlin College
O’Brien, Ed; background of; guitar-playing of; personality of
Ochs, Phil
Ockeghem, Johannes: “Fors seulement,” ; Missa Fors seulement
O’Hara, Frank
Olympics: in Athens; in Beijing
Onassis, Aristotle
ondes Martenot
Ono, Yoko
Oquendo, Mateo Rosas de
Orb
orchestras, in America
Orion Quartet
Ormandy, Eugene
Orn, Einar
Ortiz, Diego
Ortiz, Tae
Orwe
ll, George
ostinato
Overholt, Eric
Oxford, England, Radiohead in
Oxford Brookes University
Pachelbel, Johann
Paci, Mario
Pacific Symphony
Paganini, Niccolò
Page, Jimmy
Pareles, Jon
Paris, audiences in; Chen Qigang in; Mozart in; Salonen in; Verdi in
Paris Opera
Parish, Jovan
Parker, Charlie: “Salt Peanuts,”
Parker, Michael St. John
Parker, Roger
Part, Arvo
Partch, Harry
passacaglia; and Bach; and Berg; and Britten; and Ligeti
Patel, Aniruddh
Patton, Charley
Patton, Mike
Peabody Institute
Peking opera
Penderecki, Krzysztof
Pennebaker, D. A.
People
Pepperdine University
Perahia, Murray
Pere Ubu
Peri, Jacopo: Dafne; Euridice
Perretti, Edward
Pet Shop Boys
Pettis, Michael
Philadelphia Orchestra; in China
Philharmonia Baroque
Philharmonia Orchestra
Philip, Robert
Philip II (king of Spain); as Verdi character
Philips (label)
Philleo, Jaren
Piave, Francesco
Pink Floyd
Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert and Sullivan)
Pixies; “Where Is My Mind?,”
Planet of the Apes (Schaffner)
Plant, Robert
Plasson, Michel
Platen, August von
Plato; Symposium
Play of Daniel
Polanski, Roman: Death and the Maiden
Pollini, Maurizio
Pollock, Jackson
Ponselle, Rosa
Popper, Karl
Porat, Matan
Porter, Andrew
Poulenc, Francis
Pound, Ezra
Powers, Richard: The Time of Our Singing
Poznansky, Alexander
prepared piano
Presley, Elvis: “That’s All Right, Mama,”
Previn, André
Price, Leontyne
Prince: Planet Earth
Pritchett, James
Prokofiev, Sergei
Proms (London)
Providence Quartet
Pruiksma, Rose
Public Enemy: Fear of a Black Planet
Puccini, Giacomo: La Bohème; Tosca; Turandot
punk rock
Purcell, Henry: Dido and Aeneas; Dido’s Lament; King Arthur; “O I’m Sick of Life,” ; “Plung’d in the confines of despair,”
Pushkin, Alexander: Mozart and Salieri
Q (magazine)
Qi Yue
Qianlong (emperor of China)
Qu Dawei
Queensrÿche
Queer Nation
Rachmaninov, Sergei
Radiohead, background of; early fame of; fans of; habits on tour; and Internet; live shows of; musical style of; politics of; promotion of other bands; Salonen on; working methods of; works of: “Airbag,” Amnesiac; The Bends; “Climbing Up the Walls,”; “Creep,” ; “Dollars and Cents,” ; “Everything in Its Right Place,” ; Hail to the Thief; “How to Disappear Completely,” ; “Idioteque,” ; “I Might Be Wrong,” ;In Rainbows; “Just,” ; “Karma Police,” ; Kid A; “Knives Out,” ; “Let Down,” ; “Life in a Glasshouse,” ; “Like Spinning Plates,” ; “Meeting in the Aisle,” ; “Morning Bell,” ; “No Surprises,” ; OK Computer; “Packt Like Sardines,” ; “Palo Alto,” ; “Paranoid Android,” ; “Pyramid Song,” ; “The Tourist,” ; “Treefingers,”
Radvanovsky, Sondra
ragas
Rahzel
R. A. I. Institute of Musical Phonology
Rakim
Ramirez, Ariel: Misa Criolla
Ranaldo, Lee
Randle, Rick
Rather, Dan
Ravel, Maurice
Ray, Johnnie
Reagan, Ronald
recording: effect on performance; invention of; theories of
Red Detachment of Women (Wu and Du)
Red Pony, The (Milestone)
Red Rocks, Colorado
Reed, John (musicologist)
Reed, Lou
Regietheater
Reich, Steve
R.E.M.
Reményi, Eduard
Renmin University
Reykjavik
Reynal, Jeanne
Rhode Island School of Design
Ricci, Matteo
Rice, John
Richie, Alexandra
Richter, Sviatoslav
Ricks, Christopher
Ricordi, Giulio
Riddle, Nelson
Riley, Terry; turtle tank of
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai: Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh
Ringle, Rebecca
Rinuccini, Ottavio
Roberts, Dawud
Robertson, David
Robertson, Lesley
Robeson, Paul
Rodgers, Richard: “My Funny Valentine,”
Rogers, Fred
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stones
Ronconi, Giorgio
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Rosand, Ellen
Rosen, Charles
Rosselli, John
Rossini, Gioachino
Rothko, Mark
Rudolf, Max
Rupp, Franz
Rushton, Julian
Ruth, Sebastian
Ryoanji
Saariaho, Kaija; Adriana Mater; L’Amour de loin
“Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” (Dylan)
Sadie, Stanley
Sainte-Colombe
Sainte-Marie, Buffy
St. John, Scott
St. Lawrence Quartet
Saint Louis Symphony
Saint-Saëns, Camille: Samson and Delilah
Salieri, Antonio: and Mozart; and Schubert
Salomon, Frank
Salonen, Esa-Pekka: background of; children of; composing of; conducting of; departure from L.A.; early attitudes of; and L.A. Philharmonic; personality of; programming philosophy of; reaction to California; recordings of; works of: Five Images After Sappho; Foreign Bodies; Helix; L.A. Variations; Piano Concerto; Wing on Wing
Salonen, Jane
San Francisco: Dylan in; Kiki and Herb in; Lorraine Hunt Lieberson in
San Francisco Symphony
San Quentin
Sandow, Greg
Santa Fe Opera
sarabande
Sarabhai, Gita
Sarnoff, David
Satie, Erik: Socrate; Vexations
Savall, Jordi
Schacht, Richard
Schafer, R. Murray: Quartet No. 3,
Schiller, Friedrich von
Schneider, Alexander
Schober, Franz von
Schoenberg, Arnold; The Book of the Hanging Gardens, ; on Brahms; and Cage; in Los Angeles; Pierrot lunaire
Schola Cantorum, Iceland
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Schreier, Peter
Schubert, Franz; Anderson sings; background of; and Beethoven; Brahms and; death of; images of; lament and; later works of; Ligeti on; personality of; poetry and; politics of; recordings of; sexuality of; style of; syphilis and; Uchida and; works of: Adrast; “Atys,” ; “Auf der Donau,” ; “Auflösung,” ; “Ave Maria,” ; “Der Doppelgänger,” ; “Der Erlkönig,” Fantasia in F Minor; Fantasia in G Minor; “Freiwilliges Versinken,” ; “Gretchen am Spinnrade,” ; “Ich schleiche bang und still herum,” ; Impromptu in C Minor; “Die Liebe hat gelogen,” ; “Nachtgesang,” ; Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat; Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat; Quartet No. 8 in B-flat; Quartet No. 13 in A Minor; Quartet No. 14, “Death and t
he Maiden,” ; Quartet No. 15 in G; Die schöne Müllerin; Schwanengesang; String Quintet in C, ; Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished,” ; Symphony No. 9, ; Symphony No. 10 (sketches); “Uraniens Flucht,” ; Winterreise; Die Zauberharfe
Schuller, Gunther
Schulze, Ernst
Schuman, William
Schumann, Clara
Schumann, Robert; Brahms and; death of; quartets of; on Schubert; suicide attempt of; syphilis and; “The Two Grenadiers,”
Schwab, Cynthia
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth
Schwarzwald, Eugenie
Scott-Heron, Gil; “Whitey on the Moon,”
Sebald, W. G.: Austerlitz
Sedgwick, Edie
Seeger, Pete
Segovia, Andrés
Seldes, Gilbert
Sellars, Peter
Selway, Phil; drumming of; on Radiohead
Senn, Johann
Serkin, Irene
Serkin, Peter
Serkin, Rudolf; background of; grave of; personality of; philosophy of; playing of; recordings of
Serra, Richard
Setzer, Philip
Shaffer, Peter: Amadeus
Shakespeare, William; Hamlet; Henry IV, Part 2; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Tempest; Verdi and
Shakira
Shanghai Conservatory
Shanghai Opera
Shanghai Symphony
Shaw, George Bernard: Man and Superman
Shaw, Robert
Shaw, Woody
Shelley, Steve
Shere, Charles
Sherman, Richard and Robert: Mary Poppins
Shiffman, Barry
Shipibo-Conibo people
Shipp, Matthew
Shirley, George
Shostakovich, Dmitri; quartets of; Symphony No. 15,
Sibelius, Jean; Swan of Tuonela; on Anderson
Sibelius Academy
Sichuan Conservatory
siguirirya
Sigur Rós
Sigurðsson, Valgeir, see Valgeir Sigurðsson
Silbiger, Alexander
Silverman, Kenneth
Simionato, Giulietta
Simon Bolívar Youth Orchestra
Simone, Nina
“Simple Twist of Fate” (Dylan)
Sinatra, Frank: “Angel Eyes,” ; greets session musicians; lament and; “Only the Lonely,” ; recordings of; voice of
Sindri Eldon þórsson
Singh, Talvin
Sistema, El
Sitting Bull
Sjón (Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson)
Skrewdriver
Smith, Bessie: “Crazy Blues,”
Smith, Chad
Smith, Craig
Smith, Harry: Anthology of American Folk Music
Smith, James Austin
Smith, Joshua
Smith, Mamie: “Crazy Blues,”
Smiths
Smyth, Ethel
Snoop Doggy Dogg
Snow, Meredith
Soft Machine
Solti, Georg
Solomon, Maynard: on Mozart; on Schubert’s sexuality
Solzhenitsyn, Ignat
Sonic Youth; Daydream Nation; A Thousand Leaves