Declassified: A Low-Key Guide to the High-Strung World of Classical Music
Book by Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch (Author, Narrator),
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, The best masterclass in classical music you never knew you needed. Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch’s life-long fascination with classical music has taken her through Juilliard and into the shiny world of symphony halls and international concert tours. She’s loved classical music her whole life. But she’s also hated classical music her whole life. After all, if you can like Beyoncé without liking Bieber, you can certainly like Brahms without liking Bach—especially since they were born 148 years apart and the thing we call “classical music” is really just centuries of compositions shoved into one hodge-podge of a genre. In Declassified, Warsaw-Fan Rauch blows through the cobwebs of elitism and exclusion and invites everyone to love and hate this music as much as she does. She offers a backstage tour of the industry and equips you for every listening scenario, covering: the 7 main compositional periods (even the soul-crushingly depressing Medieval period), a breakdown of the instruments and their associated personality types (apologies to violists and conductors), what it’s like to be a musician at the highest level (it’s hard), how to steal a Stradivarius (and make no money in the process), and when to clap during a live performance (also: when not to). Declassified cheekily demystifies the world of High Art while making the case that classical music matters, perhaps now more than ever. * This audiobook edition comes with an awesome downloadable bonus PDF containing listening lists, lists of notable composers, a comically disturbing poem by Mozart (in the original German), and other resources from the book. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. Read more
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A scintillating, fun, clever escapade behind the scenes in the world of classical music recounted with light, conversational, personal anecdotes. As a musician myself, I admit that I skimmed just through just a few of the teaching moments of music history eras, orchestral sections, and composers, all of which would be informative, and useful lessons for non-musicians! And even though I remained a musician and found meaningful ways to still guard it as my career, what resonated most deeply for me, and what I appreciated enormously, was the author’s deft, subtle, and insightful explanations of what it means to mourn one’s deeply intense early response to music, to reconcile how it changes when music becomes a career, and the poignant search to find that pure response again. It is a difficult thing to explain, this struggle, and the author has beautifully illustrated what it means to reminisce about one's first time hearing and falling in love with a piece of music, and bemoan how the experiences with it since then have colored the first memories and innocent deep love of it. Humorous moments abound and ring truest when the author is not trying to amuse, and I found myself, like others, looking up movies and pieces that she refers to throughout to jog my memory! Many in the music biz will relate to innumerable moments in the book, dozens of them laugh-out-loud funny. Bravo on this huge accomplishment to this glamorous, astute, new author.
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