NATIONAL REVIEW
Mere Excellence
JULY 23, 2001
Last month, Kurt Masur finished his second-to-the-last season with the New York Philharmonic; by this time next year, he will be gone-and that's a shame. Since he became music director in 1991, MORE...

THE HERALD
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
February 14, 2001
Let's put two decades of doing this business, professionally, on the line here. What Kurt Masur and the Israel Philharmonic produced last night was one of the finest performances of a Mahler symphony that I have ever heard... MORE...

THE TIMES OF LONDON
Mahler for Massed Forces
February 14, 2001
The Israel Philharmonic might have been tempted to play safe in the first London concert of their UK tour, but this was clearly only to conserve their resources for Sunday's adventure at the Albert Hall. It may not have been quite a Symphony of a Thousand, but Mahler certainly got more that he had bargained for... MORE...

BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
Music That Changed Me
JULY 2000
The town where I was born had no symphony orchestra, no musical life in which I could take part, which meant I had other kinds of early musical experiences. My elder sisters sang folksongs as we went to sleep at night and from the beginning of my childhood it was wonderful to feel people could come together without saying words and just sing.MORE...

THE INSTRUMENTALIST
My Read Idol Was Bruno Walter
An Interview with Kurt Masur
November 1999
Since 1991 conductor Kurt Masur has developed a reputation for consistently high-quality performances and artistic spirit with the New York Philharmonic, an ensemble that has had diverse conductors this century, including Mahler, Toscanini, MORE...

THE TIMES OF LONDON
German giant dances with a light step
November 21, 1998
The 1990s will not go down as a golden era of stability in the history of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Indeed it seemed at times as if the only thing standing between the players and the breadline was their own I unyielding pride. But prospects are much rosier now. MORE...

THE NEW YORK TIMES
Speak Loudly, Carry No Stick
May 23, 1993
The collective blood pressure of the New York Philharmonic undoubtedly shot up last week when Kurt Masur returned for his final programs of the waning season. Nerves fray at any orchestra when the music director is around, and Mr. Masur's MORE...

THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
Kurt Masur -- Maestro of the Moment
Spetember 8, 1991
There were times these past months when Kurt Masur, the new music director of the New York Philharmonic, seemed to be all over town -- poking into every byway of New York's musical life and working rooms like the politician he almost became. MORE...

CONNOISSEUR
The Leipzig Sound
Why Music Needs the Gewandhaus Orchestra
April 1987
"You've heard the joke?" the distinguished professor wants to know. "At the Berlin Philharmonic, they play old fiddles and drive new cars. With us, it's the other way around." How much true history fits into a little quip. MORE...