The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Classical Music

For the beginner or the devotee—it's everything the classical music buff needs to know.
  • The major composers from Bach and Bartok to Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky
  • Significant performers from Maurice Andre and Leornard Bernstein to Georg Solti and Yo Yo Ma
  • The landmark works from Appalachian Spring to Don Juan
  • A concise history of classical music
  • A deconstruction of the art form
  • The language of classical music
  • Valuable resources for the Curious Listener
© Catherine Kiernan
Tim Smith has written and edited feature stories for periodicals for 40 years. He was the senior features editor at Fortune magazine, and before that he worked as a reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal. A native New Yorker, he was educated at Brown University and the Sorbonne. He has three children and lives with his wife, Jennifer, on the Connecticut shore. He is a recipient of the Gerald Loeb career achievement award for editors. View titles by Timothy K. Smith

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For the beginner or the devotee—it's everything the classical music buff needs to know.
  • The major composers from Bach and Bartok to Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky
  • Significant performers from Maurice Andre and Leornard Bernstein to Georg Solti and Yo Yo Ma
  • The landmark works from Appalachian Spring to Don Juan
  • A concise history of classical music
  • A deconstruction of the art form
  • The language of classical music
  • Valuable resources for the Curious Listener

Author

© Catherine Kiernan
Tim Smith has written and edited feature stories for periodicals for 40 years. He was the senior features editor at Fortune magazine, and before that he worked as a reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal. A native New Yorker, he was educated at Brown University and the Sorbonne. He has three children and lives with his wife, Jennifer, on the Connecticut shore. He is a recipient of the Gerald Loeb career achievement award for editors. View titles by Timothy K. Smith

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