Alex Ross
Alex Ross is an American music critic and author focused on classical music, opera, and cultural history. A longtime New Yorker critic, he wrote The Rest Is Noise, Listen to This, and Wagnerism. His work has won a National Book Critics Circle Award and helped broaden public engagement with classical music.
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Alex Ross, born in Washington, D.C., in 1968, grew up as the son of two geologists and developed musical interests early, studying piano, trying composition, and playing oboe in school orchestras. At Harvard he studied English and American literature, graduated summa cum laude in 1990, took music with the composer Peter Lieberson, and worked at campus radio station WHRB. That combination of literary training, active listening, and historical curiosity became the basis of his later criticism. ((https://therestisnoise.com/book-faq/?utm_source=openai))
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"Alex Ross's massive new book is worthy of its subject"
— The American Scholar
"Like all of Alex Ross's writing, it bottles that strange lightning and inspires us in turn"
— Rian Johnson
"Alex Ross's extraordinary gifts as a writer... make The Rest Is Noise a complete delight"
— Jean Strouse
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— Patrick Radden Keefe
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— Tony Kushner
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— The Buffalo News
"Fortunately, Alex Ross's brilliant evocation of the composer's world more than elucidates Wagner's various mysteries"
— Hilton Als
"Alex Ross has produced an introduction to twentieth-century music that is also an absorbing story of personalities and events"
— Louis Menand