Who's Afraid of Classical Music?
by Michael Walsh
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Author: Michael WalshEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-06
ISBN: 0785817379
Number of pages: 228
Publisher: Booksales
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Imagine that you are a music critic and a publisher asks you to write an introduction to classical music book for novices. You say, sure; you've got an ego, a book publication looks good on the resume, and you can knock down a few bucks as well. Heck, maybe you can even make a contribution to the spread and enjoyment of the music. But, after you sign the contract and get a small advance, it turns out you don't have the time, or the interest, or maybe the talent to write the book you had imagined. As your deadline nears you turn on your tape recorder and spew out your stream of consciousness trying to be humorous and occasionally outrageous. Although you claim you do, you really don't much take into consideration that your intended audience presently knows little or nothing about classical music. You just try to overwhelm that audience with the impression that you know a lot but you don't take it seriously. Well, if you wrote a book like that you'd have something remarkably like Who's Afraid of Classical Music by Michael Walsh. If you are, like me, largely ignorant of classical music but you want to learn more then don't bother with this book. Buy Classical Music for Dummies by David Pogue and Scott Speck instead.
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