Reviews
"The Rest Is Noiseis a great achievement."--The New York Times Book Review "The Rest Is Noiseis a long and thrilling ride. . . . Alex Ross writes about music in vivid language humming with intelligence."--Salon, "The Rest Is Noiseis a great achievement. Rilke once wrote of how he learned to stand 'more seeingly' in front of certain paintings. Ross enables us to listen more hearingly." --Geoff Dyer,The New York Times Book Review "[A] Brilliant, hugely enjoyable cultural history." --The Christian Science Monitor "Ross is a surpremely gifted writer who brings together the political and technological richness of the world inside the magic circle of the concert hall, so that each illuminates the other." --Lev Grossman,Time "It would be hard to imagine a better guide to the maelstrom of recent music than Mr. Ross, who worked on this book for a decade. He has an almost uncanny gift for putting music into words." --The Economist "The Rest Is Noiseis a long and thrilling ride. . . . [Ross] writes about music in vivid language humming with intelligence. He tells great stories about musicians' lives and illuminates their work with the light of his own experiences." --Kevin Berger,Salon.com "The best book on what music is about--reallyabout--that you or I will ever own."--Alan Rich,LA Weekly, The Rest Is Noise is a great achievement. Rilke once wrote of how he learned to stand 'more seeingly' in front of certain paintings. Ross enables us to listen more hearingly., It would be hard to imagine a better guide to the maelstrom of recent music than Mr. Ross, who worked on this book for a decade. He has an almost uncanny gift for putting music into words., Ross is a surpremely gifted writer who brings together the political and technological richness of the world inside the magic circle of the concert hall, so that each illuminates the other., " The Rest Is Noise is a great achievement. Rilke once wrote of how he learned to stand 'more seeingly' in front of certain paintings. Ross enables us to listen more hearingly." --Geoff Dyer, The New York Times Book Review "[A] Brilliant, hugely enjoyable cultural history." -- The Christian Science Monitor "Ross is a surpremely gifted writer who brings together the political and technological richness of the world inside the magic circle of the concert hall, so that each illuminates the other." --Lev Grossman, Time "It would be hard to imagine a better guide to the maelstrom of recent music than Mr. Ross, who worked on this book for a decade. He has an almost uncanny gift for putting music into words." -- TheEconomist " The Rest Is Noise is a long and thrilling ride. . . .[Ross] writes about music in vivid language humming with intelligence. He tells great stories about musicians' lives and illuminates their work with the light of his own experiences." --Kevin Berger, Salon.com "The best book on what music is about-- really about--that you or I will ever own."--Alan Rich, LA Weekly, " The Rest Is Noise is a great achievement. Rilke once wrote of how he learned to stand 'more seeingly' in front of certain paintings. Ross enables us to listen more hearingly." --Geoff Dyer, The New York Times Book Review "[A] Brilliant, hugely enjoyable cultural history." -- The Christian Science Monitor "Ross is a surpremely gifted writer who brings together the political and technological richness of the world inside the magic circle of the concert hall, so that each illuminates the other." --Lev Grossman, Time "It would be hard to imagine a better guide to the maelstrom of recent music than Mr. Ross, who worked on this book for a decade. He has an almost uncanny gift for putting music into words." -- The Economist " The Rest Is Noise is a long and thrilling ride. . . . [Ross] writes about music in vivid language humming with intelligence. He tells great stories about musicians' lives and illuminates their work with the light of his own experiences." --Kevin Berger, Salon.com "The best book on what music is about-- really about--that you or I will ever own."--Alan Rich, LA Weekly, " The Rest Is Noise is a great achievement. Rilke once wrote of how he learned to stand 'more seeingly' in front of certain paintings. Ross enables us to listen more hearingly." -- Geoff Dyer, The New York Times Book Review "[A] Brilliant, hugely enjoyable cultural history." -- The Christian Science Monitor "Ross is a surpremely gifted writer who brings together the political and technological richness of the world inside the magic circle of the concert hall, so that each illuminates the other." -- Lev Grossman, Time "It would be hard to imagine a better guide to the maelstrom of recent music than Mr. Ross, who worked on this book for a decade. He has an almost uncanny gift for putting music into words." -- The Economist " The Rest Is Noise is a long and thrilling ride. . . . [Ross] writes about music in vivid language humming with intelligence. He tells great stories about musicians' lives and illuminates their work with the light of his own experiences." -- Kevin Berger, Salon.com "The best book on what music is about-- really about--that you or I will ever own." -- Alan Rich, LA Weekly, " The Rest Is Noise is a great achievement. Rilke once wrote of how he learned to stand 'more seeingly' in front of certain paintings. Ross enables us to listen more hearingly." --Geoff Dyer, The New York Times Book Review "[A] Brilliant, hugely enjoyable cultural history." -- The Christian Science Monitor "Ross is a surpremely gifted writer who brings together the political and technological richness of the world inside the magic circle of the concert hall, so that each illuminates the other." --Lev Grossman, Time "It would be hard to imagine a better guide to the maelstrom of recent music than Mr. Ross, who worked on this book for a decade. He has an almost uncanny gift for putting music into words." -- The Economist " The Rest Is Noise is a long and thrilling ride. . . . [Ross] writes about music in vivid language humming with intelligence. He tells great stories about musicians' lives and illuminates their work with the light of his own experiences." --Kevin Berger, Salon.com "The best book on what music is about-- really about--that you or I will ever own."--Alan Rich, LA Weekly, The Rest Is Noise is a long and thrilling ride. . . . [Ross] writes about music in vivid language humming with intelligence. He tells great stories about musicians' lives and illuminates their work with the light of his own experiences.
Table of Content
Preface Where to Listen PART I: 1900-1933 1. The Golden Age: Strauss, Mahler, and the Fin de Siecle 2. Doctor Faust: Schoenberg, Debussy, and Atonality 3. Dance of the Earth: The Rite , the Folk, le Jazz 4. Invisible Men: American Composers from Ives to Ellington 5. Apparition from the Woods: The Loneliness of Jean Sibelius 6. City of Nets: Berlin in the Twenties PART II: 1933-1945 7. The Art of Fear: Music in Stalin's Russia 8. Music for All: Music in FDR's America 9. Death Fugue: Music in Hitler's Germany PART III: 1945-2000 10. Zero Hour: The U.S. Army and German Music, 1945-1949 11. Brave New World: The Cold War and the Avant-Garde of the Fifties 12. "Grimes! Grimes!": The Passion of Benjamin Britten 13. Zion Park: Messiaen, Ligeti, and the Avant-Garde of the Sixties 14. Beethoven Was Wrong: Bop, Rock, and the Minimalists 15. Sunken Cathedrals: Music at Century's End Epilogue Notes Suggested Listening and Reading Acknowledgements Index
