READ: 'When Sarah Brightman Rocked...' by Katherine St. Asaph

Of music's ever-splintering genres, classical crossover might have the largest ratio of albums sold (i.e. lots) to words written (cf. few).

The genre, itself, is subject to a thousand preconceptions--some inaccurate and some accurate, but only slightly.

One of classical crossover's founding albums, however, soprano Sarah Brightman's album Fly, is quite different from the anodyne template most people ascribe its genre; it's part Enigma, part electronica, sung in about three voices and only briefly classical.

Katherine St. Asaph's When Sarah Brightman Rocked: Fly And The Forging Of Classical Crossover gleefully explicates most of Brightman's future work, as well as how the genre sounds today.

Katherine St. Asaph is a music critic and, in her own words, a "recovering newspaperite" based in New York City.