Alex Ross

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http://www.therestisnoise.com

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Arts & Photography, Entertainment, Nonfiction

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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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Oliveros 80

Best wishes to Pauline Oliveros, a deep listener and deep composer, who turns eighty today. There will be a celebratory concert at ISSUE Project Room on Saturday night.

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Books by Alex Ross

Average rating: 4.15 · 2,590 ratings · 433 reviews · 3 distinct works

	The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century 4.20 avg rating — 2,259 ratings — published 2007 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Listen to This 3.85 avg rating — 293 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Best Music Writing 2011 by Alex Ross (Editor), Daphne Carr 3.60 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2011	My rating: