Jeremy Eichler

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Jeremy Eichler
Born
Jeremy Adam Eichler

(1974-08-13) 13 August 1974 (age 47)
Boston, Massachusetts
Alma mater
Occupation
  • Music critic
  • cultural historian
Notable credit(s)
Websitejeremy-eichler.com

Jeremy Adam Eichler (born 13 August 1974) is an American music critic and cultural historian who specializes in classical music.[1] Since 2006 he has been the chief classical music critic of The Boston Globe, frequently writing in his column the "Third Ear". Having written for a variety of newspaper publications, Eichler's 2015 doctoral dissertation was on Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw, which is the basis for his forthcoming book, The Echo of Time.

Life and career[]

Jeremy Adam Eichler was born on 13 August 1974 in Boston, Massachusetts.[1][2] Growing up in Newton, Massachusetts, he played violin and viola in his youth, playing the latter in youth orchestras.[3] His predeliction for writing began at an early age; particularly inspiring was the literary critic Alfred Kazin and his ideology that—in the words of Eischler—the "best critical writing could be thought of, in a way, as its own branch of literature."[3] He received an undergraduate degree in environmental studies from Brown University,[3] where he co-founded the Nahanni String Quartet.[1] He subsequently relocated to New York and received a master's degree in history from Columbia University.[1]

"You try your best not only to say what happened onstage, but to convey those ineffable aspects of listening to this particular music at that time and place. I’ve always felt the best writing on music can set the air vibrating once more, as if the prose has somehow been charged by the energy of the original listening experience."

Jeremy Eichler, March 2017
In The Harvard Gazette[3]

By 2003 he had begun writing music criticism for The New York Times, including reviews and features.[3] He succeeded Richard Dyer as chief classical music critic of The Boston Globe in 2006, where Eichler continues to write daily.[1] According to the musicologist Andrea F. Bohlman in Grove Music Online, he "draws attention to local performers and the city’s conservatory students alongside more established musicians".[1] Eichler find music criticism a continuously challenging and demanding practice, but credits this as its appeal.[3] His concert reviews often both narrate and review the event in question and in doing so they promote the merit of live performances.[1] At the Globe Eichler writes in his own column, the "Third Ear", which connects "music with broader worlds of history, politics, and culture."[4]

He has contributed to a multitude of other publications, including the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Slate, the Washington Post and Vanity Fair.[1][5] ASCAP awarded him the Deems Taylor Award for Music Criticism in 2013.[6] He has received a fellowship from the Center for Jewish History, a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service and has taught at Brandeis University.[7] He was also a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies of Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Humanities named him a "public scholar" in 2018.[5] He is also a cultural historian.[5][7]

In the early 2010s Eichler went back to Columbia University to seek a Ph.D. in history; his doctoral dissertation was on the composer Arnold Schoenberg.[3][7] Published in 2015, the topic in discussion was Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw, a large-scale cantata that was the earliest Holocaust musical memorial from a major composer.[3][8] His dissertation, which won Columbia University's Salo and Jeanette Baron Prize for Jewish Studies, forms the basis for a forthcoming book.[3] Titled The Echo of Time,[5] it examines the "relationship of cultural memory and music composed in the wake of the Second World War".[7] He is fellow at MacDowell, an artists' residency and workshop where he has worked on the publication.[5] It will be published by Alfred A. Knopf and Faber and Faber in North America and the United Kingdom respectively.[9]

Selected publications[]

For other articles by Jeremy Eichler, see § External links.
  • Eichler, Jeremy (30 October 2005). "Dispatches From Between Two Notes". The New York Times.
  • —— (20 August 2012). "String Theorist". The New Yorker.
  • —— (27 October 2012). "Composed in Marble". The Boston Globe. Reprinted as "Beethoven wandering" on Eichler's website.
  • —— (2015). The Emancipation of Memory: Arnold Schoenberg and the Creation of 'A Survivor from Warsaw' (Ph.D.). New York: Columbia University. OCLC 982310805.

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Bohlman, Andrea F. (2015) [2013]. "Eichler, Jeremy". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2282740. Archived from the original on 3 June 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2021. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  2. ^ "The Emancipation of Memory: Arnold Schoenberg and the Creation of 'A Survivor from Warsaw'". WorldCat. Archived from the original on 10 December 2021. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Walsh, Colleen (6 March 2017). "Life in wartime, etched in sound". The Harvard Gazette. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  4. ^ "Jeremy Eichler". The Center for the Humanities. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Jeremy Eichler". MacDowell. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  6. ^ "45th ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor Awards Announced". ASCAP. 3 October 2013. Archived from the original on 16 September 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  7. ^ a b c d "Jeremy Eichler". President and Fellows of Harvard College. Archived from the original on 8 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  8. ^ Eichler 2015.
  9. ^ "Jeremy Eichler | Pebbles on the Stump of the Oak: Richard Strauss, Metamorphosen and a Search for the Memory of Music". Bennington College. Archived from the original on 9 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.

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