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The Rest Is Noise
A history of 20th century classical music that reads like a novel. One of the great music books.
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Alex Ross
Music critic at The New Yorker since 1996 whose The Rest Is Noise (2007) told the story of twentieth-century classical music as a story about politics and place. Won the National Book Critics Circle Award and a MacArthur Fellowship the same year.
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