Ebook: Listen to This

Listen to this : crossing the border from classical to pop -- Chacona, lamento, walking blues : bass lines of music history -- Infernal machines : how recordings changed music -- The storm of style : Mozart's golden mean -- Orbiting : Radiohead's grand tour -- The anti-maestro : Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Los Angeles Philharmonic -- Great soul : searching for Schubert -- Emotional landscapes : Bjork's saga -- Symphony of millions : classical music in China -- Song of the Earth : the Arctic sound of John Luther Adams -- Verdi's grip : opera as popular art -- Almost famous : on the road with the St. Lawrence Quartet -- Edges of pop : Kiki and Herb, Cecil Taylor and Sonic Youth, Sinatra, Kurt Cobain -- Learning the score : the crisis in music education -- Voice of the century : Marian Anderson -- The music mountain : inside the Marlboro retreat -- I saw the light : following Bob Dylan -- Fervor : remembering Lorraine Hunt Lieberson -- Blessed are the sad : late Brahms.;Music critic and author of "The Rest Is Noise" offers a selection of his articles from the New Yorker. Surveys the musical landscape--classical and pop--and portrays the composers, conductors, string quartets, and rock bands responsible for shaping it, including Bob Dylan, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, and Johannes Brahms. 2010.