Arnold Schoenberg's Journey

"Shawn takes an eclectic approach, sometimes using Schoenberg's painting...as a guide to the music, sometimes sugaring the book with anecdotes of his own relationship as a listener and a teacher of the composer's works. Even so, Shawn feels the necessity, fairly frequently, of injecting arguments that need the illustration of written music--and therefore require not only musical literacy on the part of the reader but a handy piano. Still, Shawn, a composer and teacher, writes with an enthusiasm for the music of words....If Shawn's exhalations lead readers to put down the book and put on a CD of Schoenberg's opera MOSES UND ARON, the maestro could hardly complain."Shawn, Allen is the author of 'Arnold Schoenberg's Journey' with ISBN 9780674011014 and ISBN 0674011015.