Alex  Ross





Alex Ross

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Alex Ross has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996. From 1992 to 1996 he wrote for the New York Times. His first book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, was published in 2007 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and became a national bestseller. It won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Royal Philharmonic Society Creative Communication Award; appeared on the New York Times's list of the ten best books of year; and was a finalist for the Pulitzer and the Samuel Johnson prizes. Ross has received a Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center...more


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The solitary French master, who maintained as high a standard for his work as any composer since Berg, died yesterday at the age of ninety-seven. Paul Griffiths has written a beautiful obituary for the New York Times. One way to remember Dutilleux, or to become acquainted with him, would be to pick up Esa-Pekka Salonen's superb new disc on DG.

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Published on May 23, 2013 07:36
Average rating: 4.15 · 4,440 ratings · 511 reviews · 6 distinct works · Similar authors
The Rest is Noise: Listenin...
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 3,827 ratings — published 2007 — 25 editions
Listen to This
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 568 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions
Best Music Writing 2011
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions

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