The classical age.(Why Classical Music Still Matters)(Book review)

WHY CLASSICAL MUSIC STILL MATTERS

by LAWRENCE KRAMER

University of California Press, 251 pages, $24.95

IT'S PERHAPS THE MOST stunning comment I've ever read about music. Fairly early in his recent book Why Classical Music Still Matters, in an aside discussing the effort required to listen to classical music, Lawrence Kramer reminisces: "From the day I first accidentally heard a Beethoven overture (someone bought the record by mistake) rocking through the chilly, lifeless suburban 'family room' of my early teens with simply unbelievable vehemence, I've been convinced that ...

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