The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

Alex Ross with Grover Gardner (Narrator)

23 hours, 7 minutes first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction art history music challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The scandal over modern music has not died down. While modern paintings by Picasso and Pollock sell for a hundred million or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences; yet t...

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Moods

informative 100%
reflective 41%
challenging 35%
inspiring 22%
dark 3%
funny 3%
hopeful 3%
relaxing 3%

Pace

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medium 19%
fast 3%

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