BOOK REVIEWS - “THE MUSIC IN THE SILENT SOUND”: GEORGE BALINT, PRIVIREA ESTETICĂ: ÎNCERCARE ÎN CONTEMPLAREA MUZICII [THE AESTHETIC GAZE: ATTEMPT AT CONTEMPLATING MUSIC], BUCHAREST: EDITURA MUZICALĂ, 2018, 177 P., ISBN 978-973-42-1029-9

Through an inspired and extremely concise title, professor George Balint brings together the actors of the critical process, watch¬ing them from the back of the con¬cert hall: the critic (the aesthetic gaze), the audience (attempt at contemplating) and the performer (the music). Through these essays of musical exegesis and hermeneu¬tics, the author substitutes himself for each of them: as a professor and editor-in-chief of the Actualitatea muzicală journal of the Composers’ Union – for the critic; as a conductor and composer – for the performer; and, finally, as a publicist and essay¬ist – for the audience.