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Book Reviews in Issue 13:3 (Jan/Feb 1990)
CD REVIEW DIGEST ANNUAL: The Guide to Reviews of All Music on Compact Discs, Volume 2: 1988. Edited by Janet Grimes. 942 pp. Voorheesville, NY: The Peri Press, 1989. $65 | SENNETS & TUCKETS: A BERNSTEIN CELEBRATION. Edited by Steven Ledbetter. 211 pp. The Boston Symphony Orchestra in association with David R. Godine, Publisher. $19.95 |
GIACOMO MEYERBEER: A Life in Letters. By Heinz and Gudrun Becker (trans, by Mark Violette). 215 pp. Portland, OR: Amadeus Press. $21.95 | THE NEW EVERYMAN DICTIONARY OF MUSIC. Revised and edited by David Cummings. 876 pp. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989. $34.95 |
LISTENING OUT LOUD: BECOMING A COMPOSER. By Elizabeth Swados. 208 pp. (paperback). New York: Harper & Row. $8.95 | THE NORTON/GROVE CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MUSIC. Edited by Stanley Sadie. 850 pp. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1988. $40 |
MAX BRUCH: His Life and Works. By Christopher Fifield. 351 pp. 17 b& w illus. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1988. £30 | THE VIOLIN FAMILY. By David O. Boyden, Boris Schwarz, Peter Cooke, Alastair Dick, Malcolm Boyd, Werner Bachmann, J. C. Schelleng, Ann M. Woodward, Klaus Marx, Rodney Slatford, Carleen Hutchins, and Sonya Monosoff. 315 pp. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1989. $25.00 |
MOZART IN PERSON: HIS CHARACTER AND HEALTH. By Peter J. Davies. 272 pp. Greenwood Press | WHO'S AFRAID OF CLASSICAL MUSIC? By Michael Walsh. 227 pp. (paper). New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. $8.95 |
NINETEENTH CENTURY MUSIC. By Carl Dahlhaus (trans, by J. Bradford Robinson). 417 pp. Berkeley: University of California Press. $35.00 | |
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