Jeremy Eichler

Jeremy Adam Eichler was born on August 13, 1974.{{cite book |title=The Emancipation of Memory: Arnold Schoenberg and the Creation of 'A Survivor from Warsaw' |publisher=WorldCat |oclc=982310805 |access-date=December 9, 2021 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/982310805 |archive-date=December 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210222121/https://www.worldcat.org/title/emancipation-of-memory-arnold-schoenberg-and-the-creation-of-a-survivor-from-warsaw/oclc/982310805 |url-status=live }} Growing up in Newton, Massachusetts, he played violin and viola in his youth, playing the latter in youth orchestras.{{cite news |last=Walsh |first=Colleen |date=March 6, 2017 |title=Life in wartime, etched in sound |work=The Harvard Gazette |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/03/life-in-wartime-etched-in-sound/ |url-status=live |access-date=December 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208184017/https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/03/life-in-wartime-etched-in-sound/ |archive-date=December 8, 2021}} He received an undergraduate degree from Brown University, where he co-founded the Nahanni String Quartet.

{{quote box|bgcolor=#c6dbf7|width=22em|align=right|quote="You try your best not only to say what happened onstage, but to convey those ineffable aspects of listening to this particular music at that time and place. I’ve always felt the best writing on music can set the air vibrating once more, as if the prose has somehow been charged by the energy of the original listening experience."|source=Jeremy Eichler, March 2017
In The Harvard Gazette}}

In 2003 Eichler began writing music criticism for The New York Times, including reviews and features. He then succeeded Richard Dyer as chief classical music critic of The Boston Globe in 2006, where Eichler wrote daily for nearly two decades.{{cite news |date=June 25, 2024 |title=Jeremy Eichler Shares News of Transition |work=The Boston Musical Intelligencer |url=https://www.classical-scene.com/2024/06/25/jeremy-eichler/ |access-date=June 26, 2024 }} According to the musicologist Andrea F. Bohlman in Grove Music Online, he "draws attention to local performers and the city’s conservatory students alongside more established musicians". Eichler find music criticism a continuously challenging and demanding practice, but credits this as its appeal. His concert reviews often both narrate and review the event in question and in doing so they promote the merit of live performances. At the Globe Eichler also writes his own column, "Third Ear", which connects "music with broader worlds of history, politics, and culture."{{cite web |title=Jeremy Eichler |url=https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/participants/jeremy-eichler |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208183901/https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/participants/jeremy-eichler |archive-date=December 8, 2021 |access-date=December 8, 2021 |publisher=The Center for the Humanities}}

He has contributed to a multitude of other publications, including the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Slate, the Washington Post and Vanity Fair.{{cite web |title=Jeremy Eichler |publisher=MacDowell |access-date=December 8, 2021 |url=https://www.macdowell.org/artists/jeremy-eichler |archive-date=December 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208183901/https://www.macdowell.org/artists/jeremy-eichler |url-status=live }} ASCAP awarded him the Deems Taylor Award for Music Criticism in 2013.{{cite web |date=October 3, 2013 |title=45th ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor Awards Announced |publisher=ASCAP |access-date=December 8, 2021 |url=https://www.ascap.com/press/2013/1003-deems-taylor-awards |archive-date=September 16, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916125423/https://www.ascap.com/press/2013/1003-deems-taylor-awards |url-status=live }} He has received a fellowship from the Center for Jewish History, a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service and has taught at Brandeis University.{{cite web |title=Jeremy Eichler |publisher=President and Fellows of Harvard College |access-date=December 8, 2021 |url=https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/jeremy-eichler |archive-date=December 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208183901/https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/jeremy-eichler |url-status=live }} He was also a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies of Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Humanities named him a "public scholar" in 2018. He is also a cultural historian.

Eichler subsequently relocated to New York, where he earned a doctorate in history from Columbia University; his doctoral dissertation was on the composer Arnold Schoenberg. Published in 2015, the topic in discussion was Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw, a large-scale cantata that was the earliest Holocaust musical memorial from a major composer.{{sfn|Eichler|2015}} His dissertation won the Columbia University's Salo and Jeanette Baron Prize for Jewish Studies. Eichler's 2023 book Time's Echo examines the "relationship of cultural memory and music composed in the wake of the Second World War". Among the works discussed are Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13, Babi Yar and Metamorphosen by Richard Strauss. It was published by Alfred A. Knopf and Faber and Faber in North America and the United Kingdom respectively.{{cite web |title=Jeremy Eichler | Pebbles on the Stump of the Oak: Richard Strauss, Metamorphosen and a Search for the Memory of Music |url=https://www.bennington.edu/events/jeremy-eichler-pebbles-stump-of-oak-richard-strauss-metamorphosen-and-search-memory-of-music |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209054050/https://www.bennington.edu/events/jeremy-eichler-pebbles-stump-of-oak-richard-strauss-metamorphosen-and-search-memory-of-music |archive-date=December 9, 2021 |access-date=December 8, 2021 |publisher=Bennington College}} Time's Echo was named to the shortlist of the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize, considered the UK's premier annual prize for non-fiction books.{{cite web |title=The Prize announces the 2023 shortlist |url=https://www.thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk/inside-the-covers/news/the-prize-announces-the-2023-shortlist |website=Baillie Gifford Prize |access-date=November 4, 2023}} Eichler is fellow at MacDowell, an artists' residency and workshop where he has worked on the publication.

In June 2024 Eichler announced that he would be leaving The Globe and taking up a newly-created professorship in music history and public humanities at Tufts University.

• {{cite thesis |last=Eichler |first=Jeremy |date=2015 |title=The Emancipation of Memory: Arnold Schoenberg and the Creation of 'A Survivor from Warsaw' |type=Ph.D. |publisher=Columbia University |location=New York |oclc=982310805 }}
• {{cite book |last=Eichler |first=Jeremy |date=2023 |title=Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York |isbn=978-0-525-52171-6 |author-mask=2 |ref=no }}

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• {{cite news |last=Eichler |first=Jeremy |date=October 30, 2005 |title=Dispatches From Between Two Notes |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/arts/music/dispatches-from-between-two-notes.html |ref=no }}
• {{cite magazine |last=Eichler |first=Jeremy |date=August 20, 2012 |title=String Theorist |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/08/27/string-theorist |author-mask=2 |ref=no }}
• {{cite news |last=Eichler |first=Jeremy |date=October 27, 2012 |title=Composed in Marble |work=The Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2012/10/27/the-wittgenstein-family-beethoven-arrives-mfa/zUZUWoUb8JcqN7pwao9dhJ/story.html |author-mask=2 |ref=no }} Reprinted as [https://jeremy-eichler.com/writing/beethoven-wandering/ "Beethoven wandering"] on Eichler's website.

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• [https://www.bostonglobe.com/about/staff-list/staff/jeremy-eichler/ Articles by Jeremy Eichler] in The Boston Globe
• [https://www.nytimes.com/by/jeremy-eichler Articles by Jeremy Eichler] in The New York Times
• [https://www3.bostonglobe.com/section/Third-Ear?arc404=true Jeremy Eichler's column], the "Third Ear", in The Boston Globe
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• [http://archive.boston.com/ae/music/eichler/bioeichler/ Profile for Jeremy Eichler] on Boston.com

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