Listen to This - new collection by Alex Ross

Listen to This has just appeared on both sides of the Atlantic. Alex Ross has dipped back into his New Yorker essays and produced a collection to follow up on the huge success of his hit last year with The Rest is Noise. As usual, he writes with incredible vigour and passion about both classical and contemporary music, and in this book he even indulges himself with excursions into pop music. Read a full review here ...

The Rest is Noise - book review

Alex Ross is the music critic for the New Yorker magazine who blogs prolifically at The Rest is Noise. And even though he doesn't have comments switched on at his site, his postings are required reading for anyone who wants to keep abreast of classical music - especially as seen from New York city. His tastes and references are amazingly eclectic and unstuffy. One minute he's analysing the latest staging of the Ring Cycle and next he's reporting on developments in contemporary rock music or a recently discovered private recording of a John Coltrane radio broadcast. This is his long-awaited first book and major oeuvre as a critic, tracing the development of twentieth century classical music from the first night of Strauss's Salome (no accent) in 1905 to John Adams's Nixon in China in 1987... Read more >>

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