CRITIC-AT-LARGE: Leonard Lehrman
Is The Rest Really Just Noise?
©2008
Alex Ross’s long-awaited book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007, 624 pp., 21 photos, no musical examples), is the most ambitious overview of its kind since William Austin’s Music in the 20th Century (W.W. Norton, 1966, 708pp., 41 photos, many musical examples). Comparing the two may be instructive: Continue reading ‘CRITIC-AT-LARGE: Leonard Lehrman
Is The Rest Really Just Noise?’
Irving Fine, An American Composer in His Time
Phillip RAMEY: Irving Fine, An American Composer in His Time.
Pendragon Press ISBN 1-57647-116-0.
Reviewed by Leo Kraft (c) 2006
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A Dissenting View: Some Virtues But Too Many Voices
Phillip RAMEY: Irving Fine, An American Composer in His Time.
by Barry Drogin © 2006
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Learning to Listen to Each Other
by Barry Drogin ©2006
Kyle Gann: Music Downtown : Writings from the Village Voice. University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-22982-7.
