![]() “You realize that classical music is much more than this status symbol or background music to rich people’s dinner music. “No matter what kind of music you’re into, there should be something in 20th Century classical music that you’ll like,” he said. “The Rest is Noise” is written along the middle ground where good story and good analysis converge, and neither is compromised. To add to his idea that classical music isn’t just for middle-aged, middle- and upper-middle-classed white people, he tried to write the book so that it would be accessible to the novice, as well as the aficionado. He journeys through the century using its main historical events as backdrop – the World Wars, the Great Depression, the Cold War, the ’60s – attempting to show how the music was shaped by its context and how the context was shaped by the music. People seem comfortable with modern art, modern literature, but modern classical music has somehow avoided popular culture or at least our thinking. He investigates classical music throughout the 20th century, the famed modern era whose ingenuity found its apotheosis in Arnold Schoenberg’s twelve-tone compositions. ![]() In his first book, “The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century,” Ross seeks to further establish those connections and to break down the high and mighty cultural barrier that exists between classical music and everything else. ![]() Most of all, he wants us to stop being bored or intimidated by classical music – it might be background music in dental offices and used to deter loitering on Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis, but it’s also alive and vibrant and intensely emotional. TICKETS: $20, discount for MPR members, (651) 290-1221, harder to what many would call just noise, and hear the melody in modern classical music. WHERE: The Fitzgerald Theater, 10 East Exchange St., St. WHAT: “The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century,” Book Discussion with Alex Ross, Fred Child and the Turtle Island String Quartet “The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century”
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