New Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and their Music, vol. I and II is huge. Immensely documented. Slowly, slowly and carefully constructed. I can’t imagine that it was ever meant to be read straight through.
But I did it, sometime during my sophomore year of high school. I still can’t remember why. But I remember pages from that book, and I can’t picture most of my teachers’ faces.
Probably says more about me than about the books.
