READING IN TUNE*
§ Barney Hoskyns, Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits ... Affectionate and penetrating, and based on a combination of assiduous research and deep critical insight, this is an outstanding investigation of a notoriously private artist and performer ... Posted 03 May 09 ... MORE
§ Jonathon Welch, The Choir Man ... He is the man who brought you the award-winning Choir of Hard Knocks but Jonathon Welch’s own story is less well known. Here he tells it in his own words for the first time ... Posted 15 Apr 09 ... MORE
§ Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century ... Alex Ross‚ music critic of the New Yorker‚ gives us a riveting tour of the wild landscape of 20th-century classical music: portraits of individuals‚ cultures‚ and nations reveal the predicament of the composer in a noisy‚ chaotic century ... Posted 15 Apr 09 ... MORE
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