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Just coming to the end of The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross.
It's basically a history of the 20th Century as seen through the lens of it's classical music. So we get biographical and semi-technical expositions on the timelines of Mahler & R. Strauss through Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Shostakovitch some US composers and Benjamin Britten. I've got a couple of chapters left and I'm enjoying it though it's more sweeping than I would of liked. But that's just my expectations, not really the fault of the book. I guess I should have read a study of each of my favoured individual composers. (since when is favored a correction of favoured?)
Good book, wont disappoint anyone interested in the premise. |
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