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On 2/24/2013 6:11 AM, Michael Morse wrote:
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The Copland is justly celebrated. Roger Sessions' <i>The
Musical Experience of Composer, Performer, and Listener</i> is
also great, a little more demanding (and less condescending in
that sense) than the Copland.
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<div>Frankly, I find the Levitin distasteful There's far too
much bragging of his exploits in music, and far too much
undeservedly confident positivist hooey. Oliver Sacks is way
better on the humility scale, for sure.<br>
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The mid-20th century seems to have been a high-water mark for people
writing real books about real stuff. Or maybe I'm just getting old!
(That's a fact!)<br>
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Christopher Bonds<br>
Wayne State College, Emeritus<br>
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