Ted's review of The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

Ted reviewed The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross

Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (2007)

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5 stars

This book is dense and hard-going, but I've gone from knowing nothing about contemporary classical music to having enough knowledge to put things in context. There are great anecdotes and characterizations throughout, interspersed with pretty deep music theory unfoldings. As the book went on, I started skipping over those sections...