Category Archives: book reviews
Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Cross-posted from my other public blog, The Pixellated Bookshelf. I’m not going to attempt a systematic review, as those can be found elsewhere and in any case I’m unfamiliar with some of the territory Ross covers in his survey of … Continue reading
Kathleen Ferrier 1912-1953: A Memoir
ed. Neville Cardus. I think this book must have sold in large numbers (the proceeds from sales went towards the Kathleen Ferrier memorial scholarships), because it is often to be found in second-hand shops. My copy was the 9th impression … Continue reading
Conducted Tour
I posted the following review to Facebook’s Visual Bookshelf, whence I think it’s been copied to Amazon. I may as well cross-post it here. I still miss Bernard Levin’s articles; I wonder what he would have said about the Diana … Continue reading
two children’s books
Among various books which have been given to the children by an American friend are a couple with a musical theme. Opera Cat is a preposterous tale about a cat, Alma, who belongs to a Milanese opera singer, Madame SoSo. … Continue reading
Dalton’s Weekly
One of the most useful reference works for music that we have is a 1985 edition of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, edited by Michael Kennedy. This manages to pack a huge amount of information into a paperback of … Continue reading