I was excited to learn that Andrew Ross<\/a>, the classical \nSome other references to J. S. Bach<\/a> in Ross' blog are:\n<\/p>\n \n The Rest Is Noise: Escaping the Museum<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n idiots? Or did they have a healthier attitude toward music\u2019s place in Alex of musical history, the Grove gets the proportions right. Beethoven is I was excited to learn that Andrew Ross, the classical music critic for The New Yorker Magazine has a blog:The Rest Is Noise. I developed a special interest in Ross after using of a quote by Ross in my essay … Continue reading
\nmusic critic for The New Yorker Magazine<\/a>
\nhas a blog:The Rest
\nIs Noise<\/a>. I developed a special interest in Ross after using of a quote by
\nRoss in my essay The
\nCosmic Bach?<\/a>: <\/p>\n \"When people talk about Bach, they often sound
\nlike Erich von Stroheim in 'Sunset Boulevard,' as he intones, in
\ntribute to Norma Desmond, 'She vas de greatest of dem all.' .... One
\ncan end up saying, in a distinctly off-putting way, not only that
\nBach...is the greatest but also that everything else is worthless.\" <\/ul>\n \n\n
Were Baroque listeners uncultured<\/ul><\/code><\/pre>\n
\nsociety? At about the time audiences began treating composers like
\ngods, it would seem, the truly godlike composers began to disappear. <\/p>\n
\n Ross: The Rest Is Noise: Abba to Zywny<\/a>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n When it comes to the central figures<\/ul><\/code><\/pre>\n
\nstill champion after all these years, with forty-two double-columned
\npages of biography and analysis. As in the previous edition,
\nBeethoven\u2019s works are written up flawlessly by Joseph Kerman, the dean
\nof American musicologists. J. S. Bach gets thirty-six pages, Schubert
\nthirty-four, Haydn thirty-three, Handel thirty-one, Mozart
\ntwenty-nine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"