From Metal to Mozart: The Rock and Roll Guide to Classical Music - Craig Heller

It's obvious to me that Craig Heller enjoyed putting this book together. His passion for classical music has a quality of fun and delight that can disarm someone expecting to run up against snobbery in their forays into classical music consumption. He obviously is familiar enough with the genre to suggest how someone might go about familiarizing themselves with it. He offers carefully thought out suggestions for acquiring classical music CDs and attending concerts. Much of the book is devoted to a year-long journey of spending each week of the year with recordings of specific pieces (whole works only, of course). And if you don't think you're up to that kind of effort, he offers two less involved, more organic `plans'. He offers an approach to the world of classical music that is both encouraging and disarming. His writing is conversational and at best, an easy pleasure to read.

ISBN: 9780811805766

Pages: 224

Paperback

Chronicle Books, 1994

Fair/Good condition; foxed; cover creased in places

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