Joseph Horowitz is Executive Director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, the resident orchestra of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. From 1981 to 1994 he was program editor for the Kaufmann Concert Hall of the 92nd Street Y, where he also served as artistic advisor for the annual Schubertiade. He was music critic of the New York Times from 1976 to 1980. His three previous books are Conversations with Arrau, winner of an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award; Understanding Toscanini: A Social History of American Concert Life, named one of the most distinguished books of 1987 by the National Book Critics Circle and now available from California in paperback; and The Ivory Trade: Piano Competitions and the Business of Music.