A review by maggiekdean
For the Love of Music: The Art of Listening by John Mauceri

2.0

Oof, I'm gonna be honest, this was a tough one to finish. The first few chapters were very captivating and focused on how our human nature influences our perception of music, which I found extremely interesting. HOWEVER, I could not handle all of the name dropping. It was super distracting and frustrating to have to suffer through reference after reference of operas and symphonies and concertos. I understand that it's a book about classical music, but I found the amount of examples cited to prove his thesis exhausting and pretentious, which totally defeats the purpose of this book.