Listen to This

ISBN-13: 9780007319077 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 288 str.

Alex Ross

Opis

In 'Listen to This' Alex Ross looks both backward and forward in time, capturing essential figures and ideas in classical music history as well as giving an alternative view of recent pop music that emphasizes the power of the individual musical voice in whatever genre.

Recenzje

'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

O autorze

Alex Ross graduated from Harvard in 1990. He wrote for the