"A masterpiece―massive and magnificent. A book I’ve been waiting fifty years to read. It turns lights on in regions where I have bumbled in murk." ―Peter Schjeldahl, critic and author of Hot, Cold, He
Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics-an aesthetic war zone where the Western w
The scandal over modern music has not died down. While paintings by Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky’s Rite o
