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Listen to this

Alex Ross
This collection of essays showcases the best of Ross's writing from more than a decade at "The New Yorker." Whether his subject is Mozart or Bob Dylan, Ross shows how music expresses the full complexity of the human condition. Witty, passionate, and brimming with insight, "Listen to This" teaches us how to listen
eBook, English, 2010
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2010
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xiii, 364 pages : illustrations, music
9781429977616, 1429977612
1036662105
Listen to this : crossing the border from classical to pop
Chacona, lamento, walking blues : bass lines of music history
Infernal machines : how recordings changed music
The storm of style : Mozart's golden mean
Orbiting : Radiohead's grand tour
The anti-maestro : Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Great soul : searching for Schubert
Emotional landscapes : Björk's saga
Symphony of millions : classical music in China
Song of the Earth : the Arctic sound of John Luther Adams
Verdi's grip : opera as popular art
Almost famous : on the road with the St. Lawrence Quartet
Edges of pop : Kiki and Herb, Cecil Taylor and Sonic Youth, Sinatra, Kurt Cobain
Learning the score : the crisis in music education
Voice of the century : Marian Anderson
The music mountain : inside the Marlboro retreat
I saw the light : following Bob Dylan
Fervor : remembering Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Blessed are the sad : late Brahms
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