Alex Ross's Blog, page 21

George Lewis

Mind in Flux. The New Yorker, Jan. 15, 2024.

For Joan Acocella

Cate Blanchett reads Mahler

Worth considering in conjunction with Nancy Newman's article "#AlmaToo: The Art of Being Believed."

A Josquin moment

A Pamela Harrison moment

An Irène Schweizer and George Lewis moment

Live at Taktlos by Irène Schweizer - George Lewis - Maggie Nicols - Joelle Leandre - Günter Sommer - Paul Lovens

An Else Marie Pade moment

Pade's Music for the Jutlandic Telephone Company.

Apex 2023

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At the New Yorker website may be found my list of Notable Recordings of 2023.

The Rest Is Noise Person of the Year is Louis Langrée.

On Maestro

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At the New Yorker website, a Cultural Comment about Bradley Cooper's remarkably sensitive, true-t0-life film about Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre. Much thanks to Daniel Zalewski, for editing the piece, and to Han Zhang, for fact-checking it. This is my first online article in twelve years that hasn't been edited by Michael Agger. I'd like to express lasting gratitude for all the work he did on my behalf.

Music at the Clark

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The other day I saw the glorious Takács Quartet play three Bartók quartets at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in Los Angeles. The Clark has an excellent music series and an excellent, if slightly distracting, music room in which to listen. More about Clark and his curious circle can be found in Liz Brown's riveting, disconcerting book Twilight Man. The library houses one of the world's leading collections of Oscar Wilde materials — hence the Oscar portrait hanging in the mansion. More on Bartók at a later date.

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