In 2005 he married the actor and filmmaker Jonathan Lisecki.In a sense, the history of 20th-century "classical music" (and we will be coming back to those scare quotes), as told in Alex Ross's magnificent book, is also a history of answers to those questions, of composers wearing all the above hats and more, of a grand search, unconcluded, for answers to the riddle of what composition really is. 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. Ross has received a Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center, fe Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. Alex 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.
0 kommentar(er)
