WRIGHT'S WRITING

"Without music, life would be a mistake." Friedrich Nietzsche

Chapter 5 of Notes of an Underground Humanist

Mozart

Mendelssohn

Selections from the Book

Thoughts on orchestras

No joy without sorrow

Pop versus classical

Musings on Bach and Beethoven

Leonard Bernstein on the history of modern music

Against postmodernism in art

The significance of music

Bach

Brahms

Critical notes on atonality and the avant-garde in music

The value of the humanities