Five Modern Classical Pieces for Pop Listeners
Five Modern Classical Pieces for Pop Listeners 20th-Century Classics You Should Get to Know toggle caption David Michalek Now that we're comfortably settled into the 21st century, critic Alex Ross has taken a look backward, to the classical music spanning the previous 100 years. His new book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, explores how modern composers forged new techniques, found inspiration in jazz and pop, and forced us to hear music in new ways. Karlheinz Stockhausen Song of the Children Stockhausen's electronic classic, a cauldron of sound centered on a choirboy singing "Praise the Lord," set a standard for far-out music that no psychedelic band surpassed. Morton Feldman Rothko Chapel -- part 5 In the noisiest century in history, the American avant-garde master Morton Feldman wrote music that trembled at the edge of silence.
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