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Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
Books, articles, and a blog by the music critic of <em>The New Yorker</em>
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Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: Noise
LA Times, and
Boston Globebestseller; translated into fifteen languages; inspired a year-long festival at the Southbank Centre in 2013.
The Rest Is Noise is a voyage into the labyrinth of modern music...
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Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: Chapter 1: The Golden Age
Part of the Rest Is Noise Audio Guide Playbill from the Austrian premiere of "Salome" in Graz, 1906. Click on the image to enlarge it. Note: The first page number is for the hardback edition, the seco...
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Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: chacona
In "Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues," the second chapter of my new book
Listen to This, I tell a story of pattern recognition, tracing a few simple figures that show up in music across the centuries ...
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Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: listentothis
Kirkus Reviews
"He avoids jargon, he explains, he writes in real language. He reminds me of my other favorite music critic, Bernard Shaw." — Roger Ebert
My second book,
Listen to This (Farrar, Stra...
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Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: Georg Friedrich Haas
"Darkness Audible" by Alex Ross The New Yorker, Nov. 29, 2010. It has been a good year for weird music in New York. Works from the avant-garde end of the spectrum, long deemed a ghastly mutation of th...