Try Whistling This: Writings on MusicBlack Inc., 25 de jul. 2012 - 352 pàgines Perceptive and entertaining, Try Whistling This is a pleasurable journey through music, ideas and history. Andrew Ford traces the concept of dirty dancing back to the sixteenth century, marvels at the weirdness of Percy Grainger and considers the decision of Wilhelm Furtwängler to keep conducting under the Nazis. He explores the intersection of words and music, the bugbear of Australian musical identity, and the fundamental importance, in music and in life, of listening. There are essays based on Ford’s acclaimed radio series Music and Fashion, as well as illuminating examinations of music-makers from Mozart to Shostakovich, Elgar to Britten, Cole Porter to Bob Dylan. In Try Whistling This, a brilliant communicator offers a fresh take on music and changing times. |
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Introduction | |
Heaven on Earth | |
The Colour of Money | |
Stardust Memories Modernism Downthe Years | |
Furtwänglers musical soul | |
The LongReachof Franz Liszt | |
The components ofastyle Landscape and | |
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