producer, Horowitz began as artistic advisor to the Schubertiade at New York’s 92nd Street Y, for which he created all-day Schubert symposia incorporating film, Lieder, and chamber music (1981–1994). During his tenure with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the orchestra received the 1996 Morton Gould Award for Innovative Programming from the American Symphony Orchestra League, as well as five ASCAP/ASOL awards for Adventuresome Programming; according to Alex Ross in The New Yorker (November 1997), “When Joseph Horowitz became executive director, the Brooklyn Philharmonic more or less went off the grid of American orchestral culture. The subscription-series template – overture, concerto, symphony – has been thrown away. Programs have become miniature weekend festivals.” Beginning in 1999, Horowitz has served as a free-lance artistic consultant; he has conceived more than five dozen thematic inter-disciplinary music festivals for a variety of orchestras and performing arts institutions. For the National Endowment of the Humanities, he administered "Music Unwound," which producing humanities-infused festivals linking orchestras with educational institutions. Horowitz was a music critic for The New York Times from 1976 to 1980. From 1998 and 2011, he was a regular contributor to The Times Literary Supplement; he has also written for a variety of scholarly publications, including The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He is the author of the articles on classical music for both The Oxford Encyclopedia of American History and The Encyclopedia of New York State. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation in 2001, Books Conversations with Arrau (1982) Understanding Toscanini: How He Became an American Culture-God and Helped Create a New Audience for Old Music (1987) The Ivory Trade: Music and the Business of Music at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (1990) Wagner Nights: An American History (1994) The Post-Classical Predicament: Essays on Music and Society (1995) Dvořák in America: In Search of the New World (for young readers, 2003) Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise and Fall (2005) Artists in Exile: How Refugees from War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts Moral Fire: Musical Portraits from America's Fin de Siècle (2012) "On My Way": The Untold Story of Rouben Mamoulian, George Gershwin, and Porgy and Bess (2013) Dvorak's Prophecy: And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music (2021) The Marriage: The Mahlers in New York (a novel, April 2023) The Propaganda of Freedom: JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and the Cold War (October 2023)