The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

book "Nothing in the annals of musical scandal—from the first night of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring to the release of the Sex Pistols’ Anarchy in the U.K.—rivals the ruckus that greeted [Arnold] Schoenberg early in his career." From any other critic, that statement might sound like an exaggeration, but Alex Ross never pronounces anything in […]