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