Upcoming Hall Overton Event
The outstanding New Yorker writer Alex Ross mentioned the upcoming April 14 Overton event at NYPL in his influential blog.
Ross’s award-winning book, The Rest is Noise, tells the story of the 20th century through the classical music composed the during the century. I read and notated the book line-by-line and learned a ton from it. If Ross researched and wrote a second book about the instrumentalists who performed the music discussed in the first book, the companion books would form an immortal chronicle. That’s not to say The Rest is Noise isn’t great in and of itself. The most formidable books often leave you wanting more.
-Sam Stephenson
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Caryl Friend Johnson Said,
April 16, 2010 @ 4:58 pm
Thanks to all for the Overton tribute. I knew Hall at Juilliard where I taught L and M at the same time he did. He had a desk near mine in our faculty office and we were colleagues for many years. Teaching was one of his many great gifts, as Carmen and Steve said. He had a twinkle in his eye and could rival V P with musical humor. For me the evening of tribute was a bit of a trip down memory lane with an old friend. Thank you.