Listen to This

Informationen zum Autor Alex Ross Klappentext In Listen To This Alex Ross , the music critic for the New Yorker, looks both backwards and forwards in time, capturing essential figures and ideas in classical music history, as well as giving an alternative view Zusammenfassung Includes a new chapter on John Cage. Alex Ross’s award-winning international best-seller, ‘The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century’, has become a contemporary classic, establishing him as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians; this is his much anticipated next book on the subject of music.

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Alex Ross

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'Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues. This essay is Alex Ross's own chaconne, one that only he could have written - a display of lateral thinking as virtuosic, in its own way. It alone is worth the price of the book, which I strongly encourage you to buy.' Sunday Telegraph
'One minute, you're immersed in Mozart, and then suddenly you're on tour with Radiohead and contemplating what it must have felt like for an unworldly Finnish conductor, Esa-Pekka Salonen, to take the reins of the LA Philharmonic. Reading the book is the literary equivalent of an iPod on shuffle; it offers fresh and unexpected stimulation at every turn.' Guardian
'The qualities that make him a top-notch critic become clearer in concentrated reading...Ross is an avowed buff. He loves music with a nerdish obsession and he wants you to love it as much as he does' New Statesman

Product details

• Authors: Alex Ross, Ross Alex
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2011
• EAN: 9780007319077
• ISBN: 978-0-00-731907-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 200 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Fourth Estate
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Europe, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Reference, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Appreciation, MUSIC / Essays, c 1500 onwards to present day, World Music, History of Music, Music reviews & criticism, Popular Music, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Biography: arts and entertainment, Indo-European languages, Composers & songwriters, Other global and regional music styles, Theory of music and musicology, Song;Artist;Band;Listen