The top is a list of intentern links to his essays on 20th century composers.

Brief BIO

Review of Good Turns

"Listening Forward and Looking Back"

Aaron Jay Kernis' Second Symphony

Allan Pettersson's Symphony No.10 and Symphony No.11

Anders Nordentoft's On This Planet

Avet Terterian's Symphony No.3 and Symphony No.4.Terror, Grit, Catharsis

Elliott Carter 90+

Ernst Krenek

Giya Kancheli: Beautiful Sorrows

Giacinto Scelsi

Gloria Coates: Postmodern Symphonies

Grace Williams' Ballads

Heiner Goebbels' Surrogate Cities

Iannis Xenakis & Mikis Theodorakis:Two Greek Composers At Their Diamond Jubilees

Leo Ornstein

Louis Andriessen's Trilogie van De Laatste Dag (Trilogy of the Last Day)

Lucia Dlugoszewski: The Elegance of the Ungraspable

Luciano Berio's Sequenzas

Mauricio Kagel's Sankt-Bach-Passion

Olga Neuwirth

Olivier Messiaen's Saint Francois
d'Assise

Peter Maxwell Davies

Roberto Gerhard & Andrsej Panufnik: Voices of Self-Exile

Simon Bainbridge & Peter Ruzicka

Sofia Gubaidulina

Stewart Wallace's opera "Harvey Milk"

Tan Dun's Ghost Opera

Ursula Mamlok

www.joellewallach.com

www.terterian.org

Complete Opera Libretto

Akhmatova
Libretto by Don Mager to the opera by Marc Satterwhite

(Released Febrary 2008, Main Street Rag Publishing.  To order, CLICK HERE.)

Helping Verbs Work
Solutions to an Old Equation (2007)
(unbluplished chapbook)

(available at Barnes & Noble.com)

"Crow's Song"

"Lackluster" from That Which Is Owed To Death

"That Which Is Owed To Death: Fragments 1-4" from That Which Is Owed To Death

Good Turns
by Don Mager

(available at Barnes & Noble.com)

"A Man in a Room Making Couplets: First Program" from Good Turns

"Emma Mae Telephones her Grands" from Good Turns

"Hands" from Good Turns

"Words that Stick: Spite"from Good Turns

"Words That Stick: Terror" from Good Turns

The Elegance of the Ungraspable:
Selected Poems from Four Decades
by Don Mager

(available at Barnes & Noble.com)

"Earth" from The Elegance for the Ungraspable

"Elsewhere"

"Trimming Christmas Trees Above Lake Canandaigua, New York" from the Elegance of the Ungraspable

Review of "Chene-Ferry Market, Detroit" from The Elegance of the Ungraspable

Range Finders.  Targets.  Mind Sweeps.
A Brief History of Certain Months in 1995 and 1996
(unpublished book)

"Doreen"

"Dorothea"

"Mind Sweeps #5 - #8"

"Mr. Dunkirk"

"The Department Chair"

Poems not included in Books

"The Krenek Sestinas"

"Turning Toward the Sun"

Glosses:
Twenty-four Preludes and Etudes
by Don Mager

(available at Barnes & Noble.com)

Borderings
by Don Mager

(available at Barnes & Noble.com)