10 best books of September: the Monitor’s books From a true story of character reformation to a passionate primer on opera to an engaging fictional tale about a 1916 election, here are the 10 September books the Monitor’s book critics liked best. 9. A Mad Love, by Vivien Schweitzer As ...
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Vivien Schweitzer’s new volume, A Mad Love, provides such a breezy yet thorough introduction to opera that die-hard fans may want to read it first before gifting it to nieces or nephews. An experienced critic, Schweitzer has a knack for concision, and she covers plenty of ground here, hitting major points ...
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A former classical music and opera critic for the New York Times summarizes for general readers the evolution of opera and makes some predictions about its future. In her debut, Schweitzer has several objectives: to explain what sometimes are very elementary aspects of music (the different ranges of human voices, a musical ...
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