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Alex Ross (born January 12, 1968) is an American music critic and author who specializes in classical music. Ross has been a staff member of The New Yorker magazine since 1996. His extensive writings include performance and record reviews, industry updates, cultural commentary, and historical narratives in the realm of classical music. [1]
Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise Books, articles, and a blog by the music critic of The New Yorker
May 13, 2024 · Alex Ross has been the music critic at The New Yorker since 1996. He writes about classical music, covering the field from the Metropolitan Opera to the contemporary avant-garde, and has...
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Minimalism has had a huge effect on rock, pop, and dance music from the Velvet Underground onward. The Rest Is Noise shows why twentieth-century composers felt compelled to create a famously bewildering variety of sounds, from the purest beauty to the purest noise. It tells of a remarkable array of maverick personalities who resisted the cult ...
Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: listentothis. Listen to This. For an Audio Guide, go here. Best Books of Fall — Time. "A joy for a pop fan or a classical aficionado. " — New York Times. "A celebration of what it means to be alive in a world of great music." — Kirkus Reviews. "He avoids jargon, he explains, he writes in real language.
Oct 14, 2008 · Alex Ross has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996. His first book, the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won a National Book Critics Circle Award.
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