Classical Listening : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers : 9781442249356 : 1442249358 : 05 Nov 2015 : The classical record business gained a new lease on life in the 1980s when period instrument performances of baroque and classical music began to assume a place on the stage. This return to the past found its complement in the musical ascension of the American minimalists, in particular the music of Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and John Adams, and smaller specialty labels that focused on experimental composers like John Cage. During this period of change?of classical music's transition of looking both forward and back?Rob Haskins served as a reviewer for The American Record Guide, tracing these evolutions while also attending to works emerging from within the mainstream of classical music performance and composition. Classical Listening: Two Decades of Reviews of Reviews fromThe American Record Guide collects the several hundred reviews produced since Rob Haskins's start in the mid-1990s.