From The New York Times Book Review, a special issue on music. From TNR, the musical mystique: A review of Who Needs Classical Music? Cultural Choice and Musical Value by Julian Johnson; Classical Music, Why Bother? Hearing the World of Contemporary Culture Through a Composer's Ears by Joshua Fineberg; and Why Classical Music Still Matters by Lawrence Kramer. Haydn vs. Mozart: A guide for listeners who can't tell the composers apart. From The Moscow Times, a review of Mstislav Rostropovich: Cellist, Teacher, Legend by Elizabeth Wilson. A review of Lost Genius: The Curious and Tragic Story of An Extraordinary Musical Prodigy by Kevin Bazzana. Struck by Apollo! Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag remembers his lifelong friend, Gyorgy Ligeti, a gesamtkunstwerk. Tuned to the 20th century: The dissonance of the history's bloodiest hundred years reverberates in the work of its classical composers. More and more and more and more on The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross. Dancing in the seats: Music can be a more satisfying cerebral experience if we let it move us physically. More and more and more on Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks.