Reading notes: 'Everything We Do is Music'

This is a good book about a subject I love but don't know enough about: the relationship between 20th-century classical music and pop music. I think of the book less as an exploration of connections and more more as Elizabeth Alker, long of BBC, using her knowledge and connections to get great interviews and write about them. The result is a series of essays less about pop/non-pop relationships than about single subjects. I was hoping to learn about, e.g., what exactly The Who thought was important about Terry Riley.1 I was disappointed in that respect, but the book is good enough that I wasn't disappointed overall. Those essays are quite good, but (again) it doesn't keep all its promises. For example: by my reckoning, the book spends more time promising to talk about Anton Bruckner than actually talking about Bruckner. He appears in the subtitle of a chapter but only has one entry in the index, which consists only in a note that someone says that Glenn Branca's work "has an…