University of California Press, 2009. — 407 p.
Some Thoughts on the History and Historiography of Russian Music
For Ukraine, He’s a Native Son, Regardless
“Classicism” à la Russe
A Wonderful Beginning
Dargomïzhsky and His Stone Guest
Pathetic Symphonist: Chaikovsky, Russia, Sexuality, and the Study of Music
Chaikovsky and the Literary Folk: A Study in Misplaced Derision
The Great Symbolist Opera
Chaikovsky as Symphonist
Russian Originals, De- and Re-Edited
A New, New Boris?
Christian Themes in Russian Opera: A Millennial Essay
The Case for Rimsky-Korsakov
Kitezh: Religious Art of an Atheist
Sex and Race, Russian Style
Yevreyi and Zhidy: A Memoir, a Survey, and a Plea
The Antiliterary Man: Diaghilev and Music
From Fairy Tale to Opera in Four Moves
To Cross That Sacred Edge: Notes on a Fiery Angel
Prokofieff’s Return
Tone, Style, and Form in Prokofieff’s Soviet Operas
Great Artists Serving Stalin Like a Dog
Stalin Lives On in the Concert Hall, but Why?
The Last Symphony?
For Russian Music Mavens, a Fabled Beast Is Bagged
Restoring Comrade Roslavets
When Serious Music Mattered
Casting a Great Composer as a Fictional Hero
Shostakovich’s Bach: A Pill to Purge Stalinism
Five Operas and a Symphony
Hearing Cycles
Of Mice and Mendelssohn
Current Chronicle: Molchanov’s The Dawns Are Quiet Here
The Rising Soviet Mists Yield Up Another Voice
Where Is Russia’s New Music? Iowa, That’s Where
North (Europe) by Northwest (America)