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This is a chapter taken from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, The Rest is Noise.The newly-created democratic state of Weimar Germany was, famously, a crucible for progressive art of all kinds, and classical music was no different. From Brecht and Weill’s Threepenny Opera to Schoenberg’s development of the influential twelve-tone technique, Ross charts this flowering of avant-garde creativity.Now a major festival running throughout 2013 at London’s Southbank, The Rest is Noise is an intricate commentary not just on the sounds that defined the…

This is a chapter from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, ‘The Rest is Noise’. Further extracts are available as digital shorts, accompanying the London Southbank festival programme.Tracing the development of the American avant-garde, Ross examines the crucial influence of African-American musicians on the classical establishment, the dawn of the Jazz age, and the forging of a new and uniquely American classical idiom.Now a major festival running throughout 2013 at London’s Southbank, The Rest is Noise is an intricate commentary not just on the…

This is a chapter taken from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, The Rest is Noise.With some of Europe’s greatest composers fleeing persecution under Stalin and Hitler, the USA in the 1940s became a place of refuge and of fresh creativity, both native and immigrant. At the same time, a newly democratic spirit meant that what had once been the preserve of the elite increasingly came within reach of the masses.Now a major festival running throughout 2013 at London’s Southbank, The Rest is Noise is an intricate commentary not just on the sounds that…

This is a chapter taken from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, The Rest is Noise.Ross shows how the flowering of avant-garde music in early twentieth-century Russia was co-opted, corrupted and crushed by the dictatorial ideology of Stalin’s Russia, with great composers including Shostakovich and Prokofiev forced to choose between collaboration, exile or ostracism.Now a major festival running throughout 2013 at London’s Southbank, The Rest is Noise is an intricate commentary not just on the sounds that defined the century, but on art’s troublesome…

This is a chapter from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, ‘The Rest is Noise’. Further extracts are available as digital shorts, accompanying the London Southbank festival programme.How can composition in the twentieth century be summarised? Styles of every description – minimalism, post-minimalism, electronic music, laptop music, Internet music, appropriations of rock, pop and hip-hop, experimental folkloristic music in Latin America, the Far East, Africa and the Middle East – jostle against each other, none gaining supremacy. ‘The Rest is…

This is a chapter from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, ‘The Rest is Noise’. Further extracts are available as digital shorts, accompanying the London Southbank festival programme.The years before WWI were a golden age for German and Austrian classical music. The story of this period – and a way of life soon to end – is told through the intertwined careers of the two titans of early twentieth-century composing, Strauss and Mahler.Now a major festival running throughout 2013 at London’s Southbank, The Rest is Noise is an intricate commentary…

This is a chapter from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, ‘The Rest is Noise’. Further extracts are available as digital shorts, accompanying the London Southbank festival programme.Following the Allied victory, all over Europe, young people were emerging from the rubble into adulthood – amongst them, leading figures of the post-war musical scene. They would be indelibly marked by their teenage experiences, their memories colouring their compositions.Now a major festival running throughout 2013 at London’s Southbank, The Rest is Noise is an…

This is a chapter from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, ‘The Rest is Noise’. Further extracts are available as digital shorts, accompanying the London Southbank festival programme.After the war, composers took up what might be called catastrophe style with a vengeance. The twentieth century was undoubtedly one of the most horrific periods of human history – but terror was not always the subject of its composers. For some, attempting to transcend or reject the despair that consumed other artists led to the creation of some of the century’s most…

«Редкий пример настоящего певца, превратившегося в суперзвезду, – Муслим Магомаев, яркость и подлинность дарования которого особенно выделяются на фоне той звездной пыли, что навязчиво пытается прельстить публику мишурным блеском. Мало кто в отечественном эстрадном искусстве мог соперничать по популярности с Муслимом…

Джордж Гуницкий – сооснователь группы «Аквариум», яркий представитель абсурдизма, поэт, автор более 50 стихотворных текстов, написанных для группы «Аквариум», журналист, писатель, драматург. В книге собраны результаты наблюдений Дж. Гуницкого за творчеством «Аквариума» за несколько десятилетий: повесть «Так начинался…

Ни одна другая немецкая группа не вызывает столь противоположных реакций как Rammstein. Их либо любят, либо ненавидят, и третьего не дано. Эпатажные тексты их песен нарушают все мыслимые табу, а специфический ритм, фирменный стиль и сценические выступления узнаваемы во всем мире. Где бы они ни выступали, их везде встречают на ура.…

Кому было «всего семнадцать», и кто заставлял сердце Пола биться сильнее? Кем на самом деле была Элеанор Ригби? Что послужило вдохновением для песни “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”? Стив Тернер тщательно исследовал истории и события, которые нашли свое отражение в ставших бессмертными и покоривших многие музыкальные чарты песнях,…

Далеко не все меломаны знают, что привычный звукоряд современной фортепианной клавиатуры в свое время считался преступлением против Бога и природы, а споры о нем занимали таких философов и ученых, как Пифагор, Платон, да Винчи, Ньютон и Руссо. Начиная со времен античности и вплоть до века Просвещения соотношения между нотами…