![]() As it turns out I'm not the only artist with a full-time job as a side job. I don't usually enjoy reading biographies, because they tend to be full of redundant details about non-essential periods in a person's life, but I found the many mini-biographies in The Rest Is Noise quite inspiring. The Rest Is Noise provides an excellent overview of 20th century classical music. I'm glad that I finally came around to reading it and now wish I had done so earlier. My prejudices were confirmed when, on a visit to a bookstore, I opened the book on a random page and noticed some disparaging remarks about Pierre Boulez and a reference to the "cultural largesse of the European welfare state".Įager to fill a gap in my knowledge, eventually I put aside my reservations and ordered the book, but because the paperback edition is quite voluminous and doesn't easily fit into a briefcase, it ended up on my bookshelf. It sounds like a reactionary book by some conservative American music critic who thinks that all music from Schoenberg onwards is just noise. ![]() I must confess that I was initially put off by the title. Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross is a landmark book on 20th century classical music. ![]()
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