Hubbub
Nicholas Spice, 6 July 1995
Repeated Takes: A Short History of Recording and its Effects on Music
by Michael Chanan.
Verso, 204 pp., £39.95, May 1995,1 85984 012 4 Show More
by Michael Chanan.
Verso, 204 pp., £39.95, May 1995,
Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak Easy Listening and other Moodsong
by Joseph Lanza.
Quartet, 280 pp., £10, January 1995,0 7043 0226 8 Show More
by Joseph Lanza.
Quartet, 280 pp., £10, January 1995,
“... While acknowledging that the special tension and atmosphere of live performance can, at best, create moments of unplanned beauty, classical musicians know that such moments only happen within a rigorously pre-ordained design. This design, even when it appears to unfold spontaneously before our ears, does not get lost when it is fixed on a ... ”