The Rest Is Noise
Listening to the Twentieth Century
by Alex Ross
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Alex Ross, the wonderfully erudite and insightful music critic for The New Yorker, traces the shifting currents of classical music from the 1906 premiere of Richard Strauss's SALOME to the end of the 20th century. Along the way, he provides vivid portraits of classical composers, brings to life pivotal moments, and shows the role history played in shaping the evolution of the genre. Though his knowledge of both music and history can be quite astounding, Ross never allows himself to become excessively technical, and his ambitious and scintillating book should be exciting for layman and classical aficionado alike.
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9781433207921,
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2007
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A colorful history of modern music is set against the backdrop of the events, personalities, social institutions, and cultural movements of the twentieth century, chronicling the evolution of mass culture and mass politics, technological innovation, revolution, social experiments, and more in terms of the music of the era. Simultaneous.
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"Ross has all the attributes of a great professor--passion, rhythm, command--and he employs them on a subject in which most of us desperately need professing: classical music, that mystifying wash of tinkles and swells that has long been the official soundtrack of High Culture."
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