Surprised by Beauty: A Listener's Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music

Robert R Reilly

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Morley Books, 2003

0966059743 / 9780966059748

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The best music of the 20th century developed our capacity for feeling, deepened our compassion, and furthered our quest for and understanding of what Aristotle called 'the perfect end of life' .-- from the Foreword by NPR music critic Ted Libbey The single greatest crisis of the 20th century was the loss of faith. Noise--and its acceptance as music--was the product of the resulting spiritual confusion and, in its turn, became the further cause of its spread. Likewise, the recovery of modern music, the theme to which this book is dedicated, stems from a spiritual recovery. This is made explicitly clear by the composers whose interviews with the author are collected in this book. Robert Reilly spells out the nature of the crisis and its solution in sections that serve as bookends to the chapters on individual composers. He does not contend that all of these composers underwent and recovered from the central crisis he describes, but they all lived and worked within its broader context, and soldiered on, writing beautiful music. For this, they suffered ridicule and neglect, and he believes their rehabilitation will change the reputation of modern music. It is the spirit of music that this book is most about, and in his efforts to discern it, Reilly has discovered many treasures. The purpose of this book is to share them, to entice you to listen--because beauty is contagious. English conductor John Eliot Gardiner writes that experiencing Bach's masterpieces is a way of fully realizing the scale and scope of what it is to be human. The reader may be surprised by how many works of the 20th and 21st centuries of which this is also true. The book includes 100s of CD recommendations, which will be regularly updated on the website for the book: www.SurprisedByBeauty.org.

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Titolo
Surprised by Beauty: A Listener's Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music
Autore
Robert R Reilly
Editore
Morley Books
Anno di pubblicazione
2003
Condizione
Good
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0966059743
ISBN 13
9780966059748

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