"Aus LICHT" at the Holland Festival.
At the New Yorker website may be found my list of Notable Performances and Recordings of 2019, which also mentions highlights of the decade now ending.
The Rest Is Noise Person of the Year is Lara St. John.
Some notable music books of 2019: Andrew Patner's A Portrait in Four Movements (University of Chicago Press), Arní Heimir Ingólfsson's Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland, Mark Stryker's Jazz from Detroit (University of Michigan Press), Nicole Grimes's Brahms's Elegies (Cambridge UP), Susan McClary's The Passions of Peter Sellars (University of Michigan Press), Mark Berry's Arnold Schoenberg (University of Chicago Press), Damon Krukowski's Ways of Hearing (MIT Press), Oliver Soden's Michael Tippett: The Biography (Weidenfeld & Nicolson).
Outside of music, I read with great enjoyment Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Public Affairs), Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil (FSG), Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror, Patrick Keefe's Say Nothing, Andrew Marantz's Antisocial, and Amy Waldman's A Door in the Earth, among others.
