So I've Heard: Notes from a Migratory Music Critic - Couverture rigide

Rich, Alan

 
9781574671339: So I've Heard: Notes from a Migratory Music Critic

Synopsis

With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Washington Post music critic Tim Page Penned by veteran music writer, critic, and Grammy nominee Alan Rich, currently a music critic for the alternative paper LA Weekly, this book is a collection of music criticism gleaned from four decades of concert-going, opera-going, and record-listening on both coasts. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Washington Post music critic Tim Page provides the book's introduction. Included are reviews and essays on musicians, both well-known and obscure, who have shaped worldwide musical tastes during those years: conductors including Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, and Esa-Pekka Salonen; performers Glenn Gould and the overexploited David Helfgott; composers both familiar (Baroque masters, Mozart, Schubert) and contemporary (John Adams and John Cage). Probing essays include lively insights on music criticism itself and on where (if anywhere) music may (or may not) be heading in the new millennium. His writing drew from the formidable Virgil Thomson praise as "the most readable music reviewer ... our best muckraker."

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À propos de l?auteur

Alan Rich has been a music critic for over 40 years, and has written for many publications, including the New York Times and the Herald-Tribune. With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Washington Post music critic Tim Page.

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