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The Chicago Symphony. Winner and still champion, Solti's virtuosic ensemble has been the finest in the U.S. for more than a decade, and was often close to the top under earlier music directors like Fritz Reiner (1953-62). The orchestra's strengths are its burnished brass and...
Gage tells these stories vividly, unsparingly. He is equally candid about the catastrophic effects of his grandfather's hardheartedness, his uncle's greed, his father's preference for being a family man in Greece but a bachelor in America. During passages in which he debates inconclusively the...
THE WHOLE PURPOSE of Rockwell's book, it seems, is to link the different genres of music, classical and popular. That Rockwell would even attempt such a synthesis speaks much about the music being produced today. As Rockwell writes, the barriers between the different worlds of music are breaking down...
However, there are some essential and irreconcilable differences between "popular" and "serious" art forms. Rock music--which is today's "pop"--relies on its audience and the collective consciousness of a generation of youths for its power. Rock cannot--and should not--exist in a vacuum. It is by "the...
Though artists like Laurie Anderson and Philip Glass have helped break down the barriers between the classical and popular through such devices as amplification, those barriers still exist. And Rockwell, by choosing to emphasize the experimental over the popular excludes the music that has most influenced the lives of 20th...