[3] He then succeeded Richard Dyer as chief classical music critic of The Boston Globe in 2006, where Eichler wrote daily for nearly two decades.
[1][4] 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".
"[5] 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.
[3][8] 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.
[3] Eichler's 2023 book Time's Echo[6] examines the "relationship of cultural memory and music composed in the wake of the Second World War".
[6] 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.