From TLS, a review of Mozart: The first biography by Franz Xaver Niemetschek; and A Life in Letters by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The rest is silence: A review of Sibelius by Andrew Barnett.  More on The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross. Is country music inherently conservative? Peter La Chapelle investigates. An article on Joe Strummer, the punk that died as a hippie. Brown is the new gold: He sings, he dances, he's in a new movie — why 18-year-old Chris Brown may be pop music's last great hope. The end of Big Music? Radiohead’s online album release is bad news for the major record labels. The segmented society: People have been writing about the fragmentation of American music for decades — but year after year, the segmentation builds.

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