Playing the Political Changes
Journal: Reviews in American History
Year: 2020

Playing the Political Changes Sally McKee (bio) Jonathan Rosenberg, Dangerous Melodies: Classical Music in America from the Great War through the Cold War. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2020. xxv + 485 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $39.95. In the March 16, 2020 issue of The New Yorker, the magazine's music critic, Alex Ross, began his review of the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman with an account of a protest. Less than two weeks before COVID-19