The dandy-like figure of Stravinsky is the darling of the West after the tumult of "The Rite of Spring", but is dismissed by Ross as being "more famous for who he was, rather than for his music". Strauss in particular cuts a rather forlorn figure, the penumbra of genius that shone around him during his early years in Vienna and trips to the USA fading dramatically as he opted to publicly sanction the Nazi regime whilst privately harbouring enormous doubt about its moral worth. Ross highlights in particular the inner turmoil and privations of luminaries such as Richard Strauss, Stravinsky and Shostakovich. The conflict that engulfed Europe throughout this period impacted enormously upon musical tradition and its composers. In this illuminating history of modern music throughout the 20th century, Ross, who is music critic for the New Yorker, never denies this fact, but populates his prose with such authority that it is harder to see this so-called decline and turns intrigue into interest. It is often said that modern "classical" music is unlistenable, and very much a poor relation of its forebears, struggling to find its own identity in the shadows of such giants as Beethoven and Wagner.
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Du Bois Professor of the Humanities ( ), Professor of English and American Literature and Language (1991-present), Chair, Department of African and African American Studies ( ), Director, W. Auburn Street, Suite 3R Cambridge, Massachusetts (617) (phone) (617) (fax) ( ) EDUCATION Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, B.A., summa cum laude, Scholar of the House in History, 1973 Clare College, The University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, M.A., English Language and Literature, 1979 Ph.D., English Language and Literature, 1979 EMPLOYMENT Harvard University Alphonse Fletcher University Professor (2006-present), W. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research Harvard University 104 Mt. There's another Shadow Flight blog up on Goodreads! It's The Youngest Ferraro Steps Out of the Shadows about Taviano. Thank you so much for making Shadow Flight #1 on Publisher's Weekly and #6 on the New York Times as well as other lists! 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