The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $59.95 hb, 624 pp
High ideals
by Robert Gibson •
Histories of classical music of whatever epoch – medieval, baroque, twentieth-century – tend to be written by university professors writing for a university readership. That being the case, they are issued by academic textbook publishers and are unlikely to pop up in your local bookstore. Chances are they won’t appear on best-seller and ‘pick of the critics’ lists.
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