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The Rest Is Noise
Alex Ross · 2007 · 624 pages
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Ross, music critic for "The New Yorker," journeys from Vienna before the First World War to New York in the 1970s and 80s. The result is not so much a history of 20th-century music as it is a history of the 20th century through its music.
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