| Product Summary | | Format: Audio Book | | ISBN: 9781433207921 | | Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks | | Publish Date: 10/1/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 205500015 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 6H x 4.25L x 2.75T |
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| | | The Rest Is Noise takes the reader inside the labyrinth of modern sound. It tells of maverick personalities who have resisted the cult of the classical past, struggled against the indifference of a wide public, and defied the will of dictators
Annotation:
Alex Ross, the wonderfully erudite and insightful music critic for The New Yorker, traces the shifting currents of classical music from the 1906 premiere of Richard Strauss's SALOME to the end of the 20th century. Along the way, he provides vivid portraits of classical composers, brings to life pivotal moments, and shows the role history played in shaping the evolution of the genre. Though his knowledge of both music and history can be quite astounding, Ross never allows himself to become excessively technical, and his ambitious and scintillating book should be exciting for layman and classical aficionado alike.
| Praise| "Ross has all the attributes of a great professor--passion, rhythm, command--and he employs them on a subject in which most of us desperately need professing: classical music, that mystifying wash of tinkles and swells that has long been the official soundtrack of High Culture." 10/07/2007 "[T]he best book on what music is about--REALLY about--that you or I will ever own." - Alan Rich 09/19/2007 "THE REST IS NOISE is a great achievement. Rilke once wrote of how he learned to stand 'more seeingly' in front of certain paintings. Ross enables us to listen more hearingly." - Geoff Dyer 10/28/2007 |
| Awards |
National Book Critics Circle Award (2007) |  | won, Criticism | | |
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