Composers: Their Lives and Works (DK, 320 pages)Â is a richly illustrated coffee table book in which eight authors profile some 160 composers over a thousand years of Western music, starting with Guido d'Arezzo (c. 991- c. 1033); the Benedictine monk was "not, strictly speaking, a significant composer" but he developed a system for writing down...
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23AM on September 3, 2020