Howard Pollack, a musicologist and pianist (BM, University of Michigan; Ph.D., Cornell), teaches at the University of Houston. His publications include the biographies Walter Piston (UMI, 1982) and John Alden Carpenter (Smithsonian, forthcoming) and numerous articles and reviews. He is also co-editor of a collection of essays on German music and literature of the 20th century, An Aesthetic Fusion (Fink, forthcoming).