So I'Ve Heard: Notes from a Migratory Music Critic - Hardcover

Rich, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1574671332 ISBN 13: 9781574671339

Publisher: Amadeus Press, 2006

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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Synopsis

Penned by veteran music writer, critic, and Grammy-nominated Alan Rich, here is a collection of music criticism taken from over four decades of concert going, opera going, and record listening. Included are reviews and essays on musicians, both well-known and obscure, who have shaped worldwide musical tastes in the recent past: conductors such as Bernstein and Mehta, performers Glenn Gould and David Helfgott, composers both familiar (Baroque masters, Mozart, Schubert) - and contemporary (John Adams and John Cage). Probing essays include insights on music criticism itself and on where music may or may not be heading.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amadeus Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1574671332
• ISBN 13: 9781574671339
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 338