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...Joseph Horowitz...
...Joseph Horowitz, the author of Understanding Toscanini, now can claim a distinguished place on the long list...
...ultimately Horowitz, who wrote a critically-acclaimed book recording his conversations with Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau, focuses not so much on Toscanini as a man or musician as on the millions of Americans who canonized him, taking it as an article of faith that Toscanini was the "greatest conductor of all time...
Extrapolating into the 1980s his conclusions about the career of Toscanini, who died in 1957, Horowitz presents a searing and largely convincing critique of music and other performing arts in America...
...BOOK begins with an account not of Toscanini's youth, but of America's. As Horowitz tells it, Americans in the 19th century were at once proud of their liberation from the pretentiousness of the arts in Europe and deeply humbled by the achievements of the Europeans...