The Rest is Noise. Alex Ross
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Название: The Rest is Noise
Автор: Alex Ross
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Музыка, балет
isbn: 9780007380862
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BOYD TONKIN, Independent, Books of the Year
‘Puts the history back into music and the music back into history. Alex Ross’s brave avoidance of musical notation and brilliant use of metaphorical and descriptive language, means that The Rest is Noise grapples with the actual stuff of music as few other books have done’
TLS
‘A panoramic history of music in the last century. Magisterial’
DAMIAN THOMPSON, Daily Telegraph
‘An utterly gripping account of the relationship between music and public life in the last century. The Rest is Noise is a wonderful book, both as an account of 20th-century music and as something of a cautionary tale about the influence of politics on art’
Scotland on Sunday
‘There is so much in it that is good, and so much of the discussion of particular works is likely to make any reader want to go off and listen to the music, for themselves. If it does encourage more people to explore, it will be a work of cultural importance’
Prospect
‘The Rest is Noise looks set to become the definitive reference point for everyone who loves modern music’
LRB
‘Alex Ross, music critic at the New Yorker, has confronted this colossal task with all the necessary qualities and produced a book that makes some sense of the most convoluted musical century of human history. Ross takes the extremes, the wild diversity and contradictions as manifest realities to be understood through their relationships, rather than antagonisms that must cancel each other out’
The Wire
‘Full of material you really need to savour. It is the superb selection of image and anecdote that makes this book work so well. Warm, joyful and unfailingly adroit in his evocation of music in words – Ross, with this book, establishes himself as the supreme champion of modern music’
Sunday Times
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Listen to This
For my parents and Jonathan
It seems to me … that despite the logical, moral rigor music may appear to display, it belongs to a world of spirits, for whose absolute reliability in matters of human reason and dignity I would not exactly want to put my hand in the fire. That I am nevertheless devoted to it with all my heart is one of those contradictions which, whether a cause for joy or regret, are inseparable from human nature.
—Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus
| HAMLET: | … —the rest is silence. | |
| HORATIO: | Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince,And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! [March within.]Why does the drum come hither? |
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