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Author
Title
Listen to this / Alex Ross.
ISBN
9780374187743 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0374187746 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Physical Description
xiii, 364 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 22, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Suggested listening": p. [335]-345.
Contents
Listen to this : crossing the border from classical to pop
Chacona, lamento, walking blues : bass lines of music history
Infernal machines : how recordings changed music
The storm of style : Mozart's golden mean
Orbiting : Radiohead's grand tour
The anti-maestro : Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Great soul : searching for Schubert
Emotional landscapes : Björk's saga
Symphony of millions : classical music in China
Song of the Earth : the Arctic sound of John Luther Adams
Verdi's grip : opera as popular art
Almost famous : on the road with the St. Lawrence Quartet
Edges of pop : Kiki and Herb, Cecil Taylor and Sonic Youth, Sinatra, Kurt Cobain
Learning the score : the crisis in music education
Voice of the century : Marian Anderson
The music mountain : inside the Marlboro retreat
I saw the light : following Bob Dylan
Fervor : remembering Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Blessed are the sad : late Brahms.
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