Book description
Rob Kapilow has been helping audiences hear more in great music for
almost twenty years with his
What Makes It Great?
series on NPR, at Lincoln Center, and in concert halls throughout the
US and Canada. In this book, he gives you a set of tools you can use
when listening to any piece of music in order to hear its “plot”-its
story told in notes. The musical examples are available free for
download to help you hear the ideas presented. Whether you are an
experienced concertgoer or a newcomer to classical music, the listening
principles Kapilow shares will help you "get" music in an
exciting, fresh new way.
"Kapilow gets audiences in tune with
classical music at a deeper and more immediate level than many of them
thought possible."
-Los Angeles Times
"Rob Kapilow is awfully good at what he does. We need
him."
-The Boston Globe
"A wonderful guy who brings music alive!"
-Katie Couric
"Rob Kapilow leaps into the void dividing music analysis from
appreciation and fills it with exhilarating details and
sensations."
-The New York Times
"You could practically see the light bulbs going on above
people's heads. . . . The audience could decipher the music in a new,
deeper way. It was the total opposite of passive
listening."
-The Philadelphia Inquirer
Rob Kapilow is a composer, conductor, pianist, and
music commentator. His What Makes It Great programs, which
began on NPR, have been developed into full-length concert evenings
that are a mainstay of Lincoln Center's Great Performers series, and
are presented on a recurring basis in Boston, Washington, DC, and
Kansas City, and in California at Cerritos and Palo Alto. They have
also been turned into CD recordings and video podcasts. He appears
regularly throughout the United States and Canada, both with What
Makes It Great and FamilyMusik, and has been featured in
print and on television, including on NBC's Today show and PBS's Live
from Lincoln Center.
