Summer Reading, Summer Lists VII
The folks who work at WCRB Boston–the “big” classical music station out of Boston (which my mother got me into the habit of listening to)–have assembled their list of the Songs of Summer ’17…and it’s a pretty darn diverse list (with a nice dollop of Mendelssohn). Just moving from one video to another would be a great summer afternoon (like these sunny days that finally attend us here north of the Adirondacks…to go with those some of our titles on classical music; monographs thinking through the question, viability, and reason for music outside of that which we might bottle as pop. Good good weather reading…
- The Late Starters Orchestra by Ari L. Goldman
- Classical Music: A Beginner’s Guide by Julian Johnson
- The Crisis of Classical Music in America: Lessons from a Life in the Education of Musicians by Robert Freeman
- Who Needs Classical Music?: Cultural Choice and Musical Value by Julian Johnson
- Why Classical Music Still Matters by Lawrence Kramer
- Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music by Blair Tindall
- Sounds and Sweet Airs: the Forgotten Women of Classical Music by Anna Beer
- No Vivaldi in the Garage: A Requiem for Classical Music in North America by Sheldon Morgenstern
I will not be in the office next Tuesday (may very well have some Mozart on the car radio) but will be back with another reading list a week from today!