Alex Ross's is an excellent book and will teach a lot. And to write as well as he would be an idealized dream. The only caution is that's a series of detailed portraits, and doesn't pretend to be a complete or even balanced survey of the field in its era.
If you want a really comprehensive wad, the 20th century volumes of Richard Taruskin's Oxford History of Western Music, though it's still not complete in coverage ...
Two other books I recommend are snapshot portraits of the state of music at the time of their publications, and very perceptive: Music Ho! by Constant Lambert (1934) All American Music by John Rockwell (1983)
All three of these books also provide a connection between modern classical music and the art music side of popular music.
Welcome back! Every time you go there, Julie says "we should go there!" and we might, during spring break. Or summer low tides... Especially now that you've mentioned tide pools.
I don't know how these tide pools would compare to the exotic tide pools you two have visited. All I ever see are anemones and sea stars. Not that I spend a lot of time looking. But the settings are so spectacular that I think you'd enjoy it anyway. I love how the old growth forest grows right down the hillside to the beach, and the upper zone of the beach is a tangle of driftwood and old trees that are falling over off the hillside, pulled down by the excavation of the high tide.
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Two other books I recommend are snapshot portraits of the state of music at the time of their publications, and very perceptive:
Music Ho! by Constant Lambert (1934)
All American Music by John Rockwell (1983)
All three of these books also provide a connection between modern classical music and the art music side of popular music.
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It always sounds like such a great time.
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