Gramophone FeatureJanuary 22, 2021 – Maestro Schwarz follows up his cover article in Gramophone's July 2019 issue (Forgotten symphonies: the hidden giants of American music) with The European Giants of American Music in Gramophone's February 2021 issue.
"For the July 2019 issue of Gramophone, I wrote about some of my favourite neglected American works from the middle of the 20th century and was so happy to receive many comments and ideas of other works and composers to include. Most were certainly worthy and I was excited to see such a lively discussion. Now I am endeavouring to tackle what is, in some ways, a more difficult article – about composers from the same time period who emigrated to the United States during the first half of that century. Many of those emigrants came to the US to escape the Nazis in the 1930s and '40s..." Subscribe to Gramophone to read the full article. |
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Gramophone
Cover Story July 2019 — Maestro Schwarz is featured on the cover of Gramophone's July issue with his article, The Hidden Giants of American Music. He contributes his thoughts on rarely-heard, mid-20th-century American composers and symphonies - in particular his love and respect for Paul Creston's Third, William Schuman's Third, Alan Hovhannes's Second, David Diamond's Second, Howard Hanson's Third, Peter Mennin's Third, and Walter Piston's Fourth. read more... |
National Review
A Maestro Ambassador June 2019 — "Gerard Schwarz is an exemplary musician. He was a hotshot trumpeter — one of the best in the world. Then he became a leading conductor. For many years, he led the Seattle Symphony, and also the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York. He has led other institutions too. Now he is going to the Palm Beach Symphony. I joke that this is a 'hardship post.' In addition to being a superb player and conductor, he is an outstanding — really good — talker about music, and teacher of music. There is more than a little Bernstein in him. (He knew the late maestro and played under him in the New York Philharmonic.)" read more... |
The New Yorker
The Return of Mid-Century American Symphonies Oct 23, 2017 — "The conductor Gerard Schwarz’s upcoming concert with the Juilliard Orchestra, at Alice Tully Hall on Thursday, highlights an essential but overlooked period of American composition: the great mid-twentieth-century symphonies. Well, three decades later, while Barber and Bernstein have become fixtures of the American repertory, both here and abroad, Schuman, Diamond, and Piston have not been so lucky... One person who never got the message is the distinguished conductor Gerard Schwarz, now a free agent after long stints as the music director of the Seattle Symphony and the Mostly Mozart Festival, who has spent a lifetime advocating for the American symphonic school." read more... |