SOUND WITHIN SOUND, by Kate Molleson (Faber, $45 hb)
ver coffee and bagels at the Darmstadt Summer Course, Kate Molleson told George E Lewis – the composer, performer and theorist of experimental music – of her wish to write a new history of 20th-century composers, one that discusses those “who get left out”. Lewis, a man with a “resplendent chuckle” who gave “inspirational lectures on decolonising the canon”, advised her to choose some interesting