{"product_id":"listening-through-robert-kelly-9781940625799","title":"Listening Through: Twenty-Seven Concertos for Piano","description":"\u003cp\u003e​People have been writing about music for centuries, finding melodies for words, and words for melodies, or writing about what the music makes them feel. I yearned for something different -- I wanted to know what would happen if I listened through the music, that is, approach the music with an empty mind and let it start talking in me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePractically speaking, I began writing the instant the music began and stopped abruptly when the music ended. That suggested to me the movements within a concerto or symphony, so I turned to the concertos of Mozart for piano.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy own musical taste draws me to late romanticism - Bruckner, Mahler, Strauss - and I didn't want my own taste to get in the way. So I turned to the brilliant complexity and rich emotional variegation of Mozart. So one January I kept at it...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Kelly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1940625793\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781940625799\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Contra Mundum Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d","brand":"Robert Kelly","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47072335397119,"sku":"9781940625799","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d63199f4-4356-4099-b137-67039df16f3a.jpg?v=1753416500","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/listening-through-robert-kelly-9781940625799","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}