Reinventing Bach
Elie tells the electrifying story of how musicians of genius have made Bach's music new in our time, at once restoring Bach as a universally revered composer and revolutionizing the ways that music figures into our lives.
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2012.
|
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| Summary: | Elie tells the electrifying story of how musicians of genius have made Bach's music new in our time, at once restoring Bach as a universally revered composer and revolutionizing the ways that music figures into our lives. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 498 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-478) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780374281076 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0374281076 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| Author Notes: | Paul Elie , for many years a senior editor with FSG, is now a senior fellow at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. His first book, The Life You Save May Be Your Own , received the PEN/Martha Albrand Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle award finalist in 2003. He lives in New York City. |
