Off the 15, somewhere between Barstow and Baker.
At the New Yorker website may be found my list of Notable Performances and Recordings of 2020.
The Rest Is Noise Person of the Year is Yuval Sharon.
Some notable music books of 2020: Philip Kennicott's Counterpoint (Norton), Laura Tunbridge's Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces (Yale UP), Mark Berry and Nicholas Vazsonyi's The Cambridge Companion to Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen” (Cambridge UP), John Luther Adams's Silences So Deep (FSG), Kyle Devine's Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music (MIT Press), Richard Taruskin's Cursed Questions: On Music and Its Social Practices (California), Maryanne Amacher's Selected Writings and Interviews, ed. Bill Dietz and Amy Cimini (Blank Forms), Jan Caeyers's Beethoven: A Life (University of California Press), Philip Clark's Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time (Da Capo), Roger Nichols's Poulenc: A Biography (Yale UP), Graham Johnson's Poulenc: A Life in the Songs (Norton).
Outside of music, I read with great enjoyment Garth Greenwell's Cleanness (FSG), Jordan Kisner's Thin Places (FSG), Adrian Daub's What Tech Calls Thinking (FSG), Hari Kunzru's Red Pill (Knopf), Daniel Mendelsohn's Three Rings (University of Virginia Press), Mike Davis and Jon Wiener's Set the Night on Fire (Verso), Rick Perlstein's Reaganland (Simon and Schuster), Ed Caesar's The Moth and the Mountain (Avid Reader), Nick Neely's Alta California (Counterpoint), Steven Johnson's Enemy of All Mankind (Riverhead) and, a year late, Robert Macfarlane's astounding Underland (Norton).
