The Rest Is Noise Series: The Golden Age: Strauss, Mahler, and the Fin de Siecle

Alex  Ross. The Rest Is Noise Series: The Golden Age: Strauss, Mahler, and the Fin de Siecle
Alex  Ross. The Rest Is Noise Series: The Golden Age: Strauss, Mahler, and the Fin de Siecle
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This is a chapter from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, ‘The Rest is Noise’. Further extracts are available as digital shorts, accompanying the London Southbank festival programme.The years before WWI were a golden age for German and Austrian classical music. The story of this period – and a way of life soon to end – is told through the intertwined careers of the two titans of early twentieth-century composing, Strauss and Mahler.Now a major festival running throughout 2013 at London’s Southbank, The Rest is Noise is an intricate commentary not just on the sounds that defined the century, but on art’s troublesome dance with politics, social and cultural change.Alex Ross is the New Yorker’s music critic, and the winner of the Guardian First Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Rest is Noise, which was also shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson and Pulitzer prizes for non-fiction.
  • Категория: музыка
  • Правообладатель: HarperCollins
  • Возрастное ограничение: 0+
  • ISBN: 9780007519552
  • Легальная стоимость: 154.08 руб.

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