Included in these eighteen essays by Cone are his never-before-published essay, The World of Opera and Its Inhabitants, the unabridged version of Music: A View from Delft, an introduction to this collection by the author himself, and a complete bibliography of his published writings.
This selection of [Cone's] writings includes all the most incandescent and influential articles. We should have had such a book long ago.--Joseph Kerman, University of California at Berkeley
Winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for 1990