(Applause Books). This provocative collection and major publishing event brings together the critical highlights of the well-known New York cultural critic John Simon. Covering a span of more than three decades, it includes previously published work from New York, The Hudson Review, National Review, Opera News, The New Leader , and other notable publications. This music volume is the most varied and contains both music reviews and essays on opera and classical performances and recordings, even Brazilian music, with CD references, that reflect Simon's most up-to-date views on the topic. A Simon on Erik "The preferred word for Satie's music is depouillement, meaning stripping down, sobriety, concision, or bareness. 'The artist does not have the right to dispose needlessly of the hearer's time,' Satie proclaimed. But no one else's bareness, save that of a Greek statue or Renaissance nude, seems so fully, sensuously self-sufficient."

John Simon on Music : Criticism 1979-2005 (John Simon On--) (John Simon On--)

John Simon on music : criticism, 1979-2004

Simon, John Ivan

John Ivan Simon

New York, NY: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

Applause ; Roundhouse [distributor

Applause Theatre Book Publishers

Glenn Young Books

United States, United States of America

New York, NY, New York State, 2005

New York, NY, Milwaukee, WI, 2005

New York, Northam, 2005

Hardcover, PS, 2005

Previously published journal articles by Simon.
Includes index.

"This provacative book is part of a major publishing event that brings together the critical writing of the well-known New York cultural critic John Simon. covering a span of more than three decades, it includes previously published work from New York, the Hudson Review, National Review, Opera News, the New Leader, and other notable publications."--Jacket

504 pages ; 24 cm
Previously published journal articles by Simon
Includes index

The 1970s
The 1980s
The 1990s
The 2000s.

2023-06-28