New York Times, music critic, 1992-96 New Yorker, music critic, 1996. Agent-Tina Bennett, Janklow & Nesbit Associates, 445 Park Ave., New York, NY 10022. Office-New Yorker, 4 Times Sq., New York, NY, 10036. In 2005 he married the actor and filmmaker Jonathan Lisecki.Born 1968, in Washington, DC married partner Jonathan Lisecki (an actor and film director), 2005. A native of Washington, DC, Ross now lives in Manhattan. His next book, an essay collection titled Listen to This, will appear in fall 2010. He has also served as a McGraw Professor in Writing at Princeton University. Ross has received a Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center, fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin and the Banff Centre, three ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards, and an honorary doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music. 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. 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. From 1992 to 1996 he wrote for the New York Times. See this thread for more information.Īlex Ross has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. Now a major festival running throughout 2013 at London’s Southbank, The Rest is Noise is an intricate commentary not just on the sounds that defined the century, but on art’s troublesome dance with politics, social and cultural change.Īlex Ross is the New Yorker’s music critic, and the winner of the Guardian First Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Rest is Noise, which was also shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson and Pulitzer prizes for non-fiction. ‘The Rest is Noise’ has been an aerial tour of this ever-changing landscape. How can composition in the twentieth century be summarised? Styles of every description – minimalism, post-minimalism, electronic music, laptop music, Internet music, appropriations of rock, pop and hip-hop, experimental folkloristic music in Latin America, the Far East, Africa and the Middle East – jostle against each other, none gaining supremacy. Further extracts are available as digital shorts, accompanying the London Southbank festival programme. This is a chapter from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, ‘The Rest is Noise’.

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