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Description edit
Alex Ross’s award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise , has become a contemporary classic, establishing him as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This , which takes its title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross described his... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Bob Dylan: Add a description of this character.
- Björk
- Mozart
- Brahms
- Adams
- Salonen
- Schubert
- Monteverdi
- Uchida
- Beethoven
- Yorke
- Kiki
- Wagner
- Serkin
- Marlboro
- Anderson
- Leopold
- Don Giovanni
- Williams
- Colin
- Dudamel
- Borda
- Ligeti
- Schumann
- Cobain
- Shabazz
- Stravinsky
- Sousa
- Haydn
- Nuttall
- Jonny
- Fleischmann
- Hitler
- Sinatra
- Dido
- Valgeir
- Toscanini
- Schoenberg
- Zhang
- Selway
- Stockhausen
- Bernstein
- Marcus
- David Soyer
- Alfredo
- Fairbanks
- Dowland
Quotes edit
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“Composers are in rebellion against reality. They manufacture a product that is universally deemed superfluous- at least until their music enters public consciousness, at which point people begin to say that they could not live without it. (p.8)”
Setting & Locations edit
- New York
- China
- America
- Beijing
- London
- Paris
- Vienna
- Los Angeles
- Alaska
- Eroica
- California
- Iceland
- Goethe
- Europe
- Reykjavík
- Providence
- Metropolitan Opera
- Medúlla
- Berlin
- St. Lawrence
- Salzburg
- England
- Berkeley
- Carnegie Hall
- Leipzig
- Tristan
- United States
- Venezuela
- Florence
- Venice
- Hecuba
- Romantic
- Juilliard
- Boston
- San Francisco
- Shakespeare
- Shanghai
- Columbia
- Brazil
- Salvador
- Hollywood
Awards edit
- Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year (2010: Nonfiction)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 780
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- The Listen to This Audio Guide: "Here you can listen to brief excerpts of some of the works discussed in Listen To This."
- Keeping Score: The San Fransisco Symphony Orchestras multimedia site; tremendously useful.
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