Thomas Adès has a body of work behind him which has already ensured his place in the musical canon as one of the crucial cultural forces of the last and the present century. Drew Massey's new study of Ades, Thomas Adès in Five Essays, will bring his music to a new audience, as well as enriching the experience of those who already know it. Massey deftly places Ades in musical and cultural context, with an acute understanding of how Adès works
his magic: by 'denying us any sense of stability he simultaneously enchants us'. Unmissable.
Drew Massey is a scholar of British and American music since 1900. His first book, John Kirkpatrick, American Music, and the Printed Page, received the ASCAP Foundation's Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism in 2014. He has published on Charles Ives, Carl Ruggles, Leonard Bernstein, and other topics.