The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the histor….

The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth [Symphony of Beethoven] is one of the most horrifying moments in music, as the careful….

To the large extent that music can organize our perceptions of our own bodies and emotions, it can tell us things about history that are not accessib….

Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal music….

Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium….

Sexuality ... is at the same time the most personal of realms and also the realm most carefully constrained by social order..

Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is so influential..