Cecil Taylor, Dark and Luminous
In the Brewing Luminous: The Life & Music of Cecil Taylorby Philip FreemanWolke Verlag, 2024, 344 p. Like his contemporaries and fellow avant-garde masters Bill…
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Book Review | Wired for Music by Adriana Barton
We may all be wired for music. But, as Adriana Barton contends, we are not all wired for a performance career in classical music.
Book Review: Song of a Nation: The Untold Story of Canada’s National Anthem
Song of a Nation: The Untold Story of Canada’s National Anthem by Robert Harris, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. ISBN: 9780771050923 While growing up in the…
Summer Reading: Boussole
Boussole Mathias Énard Actes Sud, 378 p. Boussole’s first sentence is a 300-word long delirium. The winner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt thus sets the…
Summer Reading: La carte des Mendelssohn
La carte des Mendelssohn Diane Meur Sabine Wespieser éditeur, 461 p. Diane Meur decided to investigate the ancestors of Felix Mendelssohn: his father Abraham Mendelssohn…
Book Review: River Music by Mary Sonderstrom
River Music Mary Soderstrom Cormorant Books, 276 pages River Music, the sixth novel from Montréaler Mary Soderstrom, follows the life of Gloria, a pianist who…
