Who's Afraid of Classical Music?: A Highly Arbitrary and Thoroughly Opinionated Guide to Listening To and Enjoying Symphony, Opera and Chamber Music
by Michael Walsh
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Time magazine music critic Michael Walsh has created for the rock 'n roll generation a complete and totally irreverent guide to listening to, collecting, and enjoying classical music. If rock 'n roll just isn't enough for you anymore; if you loved the music from Amadeus, 2001 and Ordinary People and want to know how to find more; or if you can't wait to take full advantage of your new CD player with the music it was made for, here is a complete and totally irreverent guide to listening to, show more collecting, and enjoying classical music. It gives you: -The basic beginner's repertoire, from Bach partitas to Philip Glass operas -The inside story of the great composers as real people with real foibles -Suggested tunes for Sunday brunch, highway driving, morning jogs, and nighttime seductions -And even de-mystifies the dreaded "o" -word (opera)! Who's Afraid of Classical Music? shows that when you know how to listen, this stuff can be as much fun as the Rolling Stones--and maybe more! show lessTags
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Uneven (contains odd rants including a chapter on what's wrong with classical music) and outdated (what's a record?), but I liked it, especially the descriptions of suggestions (ie, the repertoire). Worth skimming or having on a shelf for reference.
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Michael Walsh is a journalist, author, and screenwriter, whose work includes six novels, seven works of nonfiction, and a hit Disney movie. The former classical music critic of Time magazine, he is now a regular contributor of political and cultural commentary to PJ Media and a Sunday op-ed columnist for the New York Post. Among his awards are the show more ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for distinguished music criticism, in 1979, and the American Books Awards prize for fiction for his gangster novel, And All the Saints, in 2004. show less
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