Alex Ross’s guest-blogger, Justin Davidson, has some fun with Michael Tilson Thomas:
After establishing his street cred by remarking that "by Mozart’s day, music was way more in your face than it had been before," MTT finally gets to the heart of his argument: that the densifying, intensifying and increasingly overwhelming sound of 19th and 20th century symphonic music arose from the need to compete with the rising din of urban life. That, I’ll buy.
If you love classical music and you’re not reading Alex Ross’s blog, you now have no excuse.
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