About the Author:

Website: https://www.kennethlafavemusic.com/
Kenneth LaFave, former music critic for the Arizona Republic and the Kansas City Star, composes, teaches, and writes about music. The Phoenix Symphony, the Chicago String Quartet, and the Kansas City Chorale have commissioned scores from him, and his essays and reviews have appeared in NewMusicBox.org, Opera News, Dance magazine, and Epoch Times. His published books include Experiencing Leonard Bernstein: A Listener’s Companion (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), The Sound of Ontology: Music as a Model for Metaphysics (Lexington Books, 2017), Experiencing Film Music: A Listener’s Companion (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), and most recently War of the Words Language, Lies, and the Left (2022).