Opera and the Morbidity of Music (New York Review Collections (Hardcover))
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Review "Kerman's subjects range widely, from book reviews through several obituaries (Maria Callas and Carlos Kleiber), essays on various topics, discussions of recordings, and even some commentary on individual compositions." --The Examiner“A figurehead of his profession...” –The Nation“One of the most frequently quoted writers about opera...” –Globe and Mail Read more About the Author Joseph Kerman is emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley. He began writing music criticism for The Hudson Review in the 1950s, and is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and many other journals. His books include Opera as Drama (1956; new and revised edition 1988), The Beethoven Quartets (1967), Contemplating Music (1986), Concerto Conversations (1999), and The Art of Fugue (2005). Read more
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Reviews
Yesterday I received this book from Amazon, and already today I have finished reading it, it so fascinated me.- I am sure that I will read it again, more leisurely, many times.- In the first place it is necessary to state that of the 30 essays the first 27 are all book reviews i.e. commentaries on several books -- but all these reviews are so enormously perceptive and add so many facts and so many insights to our knowledge that they make reading these mere book reviews certainly very rewarding and instructive and tell us much about the erudition and intelligence of Joseph Kerman.- They contain not only a wide range of unknown or little-known facts but also illuminating comments.- The four book reviews about Mozart, the four about Beethoven, the one about Berlioz, the two about Verdi and especially the three about Wagner are truly remarkable.- Only the last three essays (The Art of the Program Note, Maria Callas, Carlos Kleiber) are not book reviews but independent chapters written by the author himself, and all three of them are,again, not only astonishingly well informed, containing a wealth of new facts, but also superbly argumented, convincing, witty, original and inspiring.- Highly recommended for every music lover, but also for the general public.-
