Teachout is a member of the editorial board of the New York Daily News and a contributing editor of Musical America. He is the editor of Beyond the Boom: New Voices on American Life, Culture, and Politics (Poseidon Press).

'Anyone who fancies himself self a thinker," Samuel Lipman writes in Arguing for Music, Arguing for Culture, his third collection of critical essays, "should have the experience of mixing his ideas with his labor." For many years a distinguished concert ...