Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York [N.Y.] : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
498 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780374281076 (hbk. : alk. paper) :, 0374281076 (hbk. : alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Prelude -- Revival -- A man in a room -- Playing together -- Technical transcendence -- Both sides now -- Strange loops -- Postlude : Late adopters
Elie tells the electrifying story of how musicians of genius have made Bach's music new in our time, at once restoring Bach as a universally revered composer and revolutionizing the ways that music figures into our lives