Something I Heard - Bernard Holland
-30% with code BOOKS
Shipping in 10-16 days
30-day return policy
For twenty-plus years, music critic Bernard Holland heard it all. He reviewed and interviewed many of the most celebrated classical artists - singers, conductors, instrumentalists, composers and the avant garde - of the twentieth century for the New York Times. Reporting both sides of the culture war between music history and radical change, Holland writes critiques on Philip Glass to Verdi, Messiaen to Bac ... Full description
You May Also Like
TOP
Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health
-30% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
A Screaming Life: Into the Superunknown with Soundgarden and Beyond
-30% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
-30% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
-30% with code BOOKS
In stock
TOP
Mike Joyce - The Drums: A Times Book of the Year 2025
-30% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
Little Book of Cartier: The story of the iconic jewellery brand
-30% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
World of Warcraft Chronicle, Volume 3
-30% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
A Man and His Watch: 76 of the World's Most Iconic Watches and Stories from the Men Who Wore Them
-30% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
Encyclopaedia Eorzea ~The World of Final Fantasy XIV~ Volume I
-30% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
Silver Marilyn. Marilyn Monroe und die Kamera: Photographien 1945-1962
-30% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
25 leichte Etüden: für Klavier op. 100
-30% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
-30% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
Before & Laughter: The hilarious guide to changing your life
-30% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
TOP
Encyclopaedia Eorzea ~The World of Final Fantasy XIV~ Volume III
-30% with code BOOKS
In stock at our supplier
Description
For twenty-plus years, music critic Bernard Holland heard it all. He reviewed and interviewed many of the most celebrated classical artists - singers, conductors, instrumentalists, composers and the avant garde - of the twentieth century for the New York Times.
Reporting both sides of the culture war between music history and radical change, Holland writes critiques on Philip Glass to Verdi, Messiaen to Bach, Peter Sellars to Zeffirelli, and Linda Ronstadt to The Three Tenors.
Throughout, Holland changes the discussion from 'will classical music survive?' to 'what classical music really is' and, in the process, destroys the myth of 'high and low art'. He also asks what a music critic really is.
Along the way, the reader chats with Herbert von Karajan, takes a plane trip with Yo-Yo Ma, joins in with the boos at Bayreuth, and walks the slow walk with Robert Wilson.
"No one today can match the limpid elegance and intellectual precision of his style, which recalls the heyday of Virgil Thomson." -The New Yorker
Perhaps the most important of this town's arbiters." The Independent
Holland has a remarkable ability to conjure up the essence of a composer of a piece of music in a few deftly chosen words. He is, I think, an aphorist of unparalleled virtuosity." - San Francisco Chronicle
More Information
| Author | Bernard Holland |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp |
| Release year | 2015 |
| Cover type | Softcover |
| EAN | 9780976498674 |