Philip Hale (1854-1934) helped put Boston on the Transatlantic map through his music writing. He was one of the most frequently read American writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In Trans-Atlantic Passages: Philip Hale on the Boston Symphony Orchestra 1889-1933 John Ceander Mitchell reconstructs Hales oeuvre to produce an authoritative account of the role the Boston Symphony played in the international world of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century music.