Joseph Horowitz (born 1948 in New York City) is an American cultural historian whose eleven books mainly deal with the institutional history of classical music in the United States. As a producer of concerts, he has played a pioneering role in promoting thematic programming and new concert formats. His tenure as artistic advisor and, subsequently, executive director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (1992–1997) attracted national attention for its radical departure from traditional functions and templates. He currently produces "More than Music" documentaries for National Public Radio. Life and work Horowitz’s books treat the late nineteenth century as the apex of American classical music, before it generated into a “culture of performance“ spotlighting celebrity conductors and instrumentalists, whom he terms “performance specialists” in contradistinction to the composer/performers of an earlier era. He is also credited (as by Alex Ross in The New Yorker) with coining the phrase “post-classical music” to describe an emerging 21st-century musical landscape merging classical music with popular and non-Western genres. Dvorak's Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music (2022; winner of an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award) "proposes a new paradigm" for the history of American classical music, replacing the standard narrative" popularized by Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson; it privileges Ives, Gershwin, and Black classical music. In 2002, Horowitz co-created PostClassical Ensemble, a chamber orchestra in Washington, D.C., for which he served as executive director, then executive producer through 2022. For Naxos, he produced nine PCE CDs, and DVDs featuring little-known American works. He also directed Music Unwound, a national consortium of orchestras and universities funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. During the pandemic, he produced six “Dvorak’s Prophecy” Naxos documentary films. This led to his current series of “More than Music” documentaries for National Public Radio, broadcast via the news magazine 1A. His forthcoming books are The Marriage: The Mahlers in New York (his first novel) and The Propaganda of Freedom: JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and the Cultural Cold War. He is also increasingly active as a vocal accompanist. As a composer, Horowitz co-created (with the music historian Michael Beckerman) a widely performed Hiawatha Melodrama for narrator and orchestra incorporating a text by Longfellow. His Mahlerei, a concertino for bass trombone and chamber ensemble, adapts the Scherzo from Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. He is collaborating with the choreographer Igal Perry on a forthcoming Mahler/Schubert adaptation titled Einsamkeit. As a concert