New books of interest.
— Joel Sachs, Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music (Oxford) — Howard Pollack, Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World (Oxford) — Barry Millington, The Sorcerer of Bayreuth: Richard Wagner, His Work and His World (Oxford) — Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker, A History of Opera (Norton) — R. J. Stove, César Franck: His Life and Times (Scarecrow) — Candace Allen, Soul Music: The Pulse and Race of Music (Gibson Square) — Andrew Ford, Try Whistling This: Writings About Music (Black Inc.) — Paul Elie, Reinventing Bach (FSG) — Thomas Adès and Tom Service, Full of Noises (FSG) — Jeremy Grimshaw, Draw a Straight Line and Follow It: The Music and Mysticism of La Monte Young (Oxford) — Neal Peres Da Costa, Off the Record: Performing Practices in Romantic Piano Playing (Oxford)
