University of California Press

it is the textual-critical in terpretation of Wagner's works that is most satisfying in Beyond Reason. Berger's freshly imagined and vividly expounded narratives have most in common with such... — The Wagner Journal More…

Vest's merits as a musicologist and writer include a lucid prose style (scattered with occasional gems of poetic description), a dramatist's flair for rhetorical structuring, and an archivist's... — Music and Letters More…

[An] illuminating way to reconsider opera in the post-Brecht era — Opera Magazine More…

Through photos, objects and rare footage [featured in the book], the experiments on Ms. Halprin's deck are revealed to be crucial to the Judson revolution and so much that has happened since... — The New York Times More…

[Van Orden] writes with such verve and enthusiasm that her book can convey the import of her work to the general reader — Examiner.com More…

Highly recommended. Yields rich, evocative insights into a period of modernist music making now receding from consciousness." CHOICE "Joy Calico, however, writes with an ease and fluidity that... — The Times More…