by Michael Steinberg and Larry Rothe

The power of music, the way it works on the mind and heart, remains an enticing mystery. Now two noted writers on classical music, Michael Steinberg and Larry Rothe, explore the allure of this melodious art--not in the clinical terms of social scientists--but through stories drawn from their own experience. In For the Love of Music, Steinberg and Rothe draw on a lifetime of listening to, living with, and writing about music, sharing the delights and revelatory encounters they have had with Mozart, Brahms, Stravinsky, and a host of other great (and almost-great) composers. At once highly personal and immediately accessible, their writings shed light on those who make music and those who listen to it--drawing readers into the beautiful and dangerous terrain that has meant so much to the authors. In recounting how they themselves came to love music, Steinberg and Rothe offer keys for listening. You will meet the man who created the sound of Hollywood's Golden Age and you will learn how composers have addressed issues as contemporary as AIDS and the terrorist attacks of September 11.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
I. Beginnings
How I Fell in Love with Music, Michael Steinberg
Preliminary: The Professor's Legacy, Larry Rothe
II. Creations
Another Word for Mozart, Michael Steinberg
Thinking of Robert Schumann, Michael Steinberg
The Sacred, the Profane, and the Gritty Affirmations of Music, Larry Rothe
Franz Schubert, "A Rich Possession", Michael Steinberg
Encountering Brahms, Larry Rothe
Schoenberg, Brahms, and The Great Tradition, Michael Steinberg
First-Rate Second-Class Composer, Larry Rothe
Sibelius and Mahler: What More Could There BE?, Larry Rothe
Remembering Rachmaninoff, Michael Steinberg
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: A Meditation, Larry Rothe
Tchaikovsky's Mozart (and Others'), Michael Steinberg
On the Trail of W.A. Mozart, Larry Rothe
What They Saw, Larry Rothe
A Short Life of J.S. Bach, Larry Rothe
Stravinsky's Ear-stretching, Joy-giving Legacy, Michael Steinberg
III. The Recent Scene
A Visit with Lou Harrison, Michael Steinberg
George Perle: Composing a Way of Life, Larry Rothe
A Quintet for American Music, Michael Steinberg
Three American Composers in Pursuit of the White Whale, Larry Rothe
A Century Set to Music, Michael Steinberg
IV. Missionaries
Making America Musical: A Salute to Theodore Thomas, Michael Steinberg
Sigmund Spaeth, Someone You Should Know, Larry Rothe
Isaac Stern - On Music and Life, Michael Steinberg
V. Affairs to Remember
Loving Memories of Movie Music, Larry Rothe
Vienna Trilogy: Vignettes from the City of Music, Larry Rothe
Music, True or False, Larry Rothe
Why We Are Here, Michael Steinberg
VI. Postlude
The Sounds We Make