The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 15/12/2008
The unlikely hit of the 1958 theatre season was a twelfth-century sacred drama called “The Play of Daniel,” a retelling of Daniel’s adventures in the lions’ den and at the court of Darius. The early-music pioneer Noah Greenberg and his group New York Pro Musica presented the piece . . .
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 12/12/2008
... Renes conducting the Netherlands Opera (Opus Arte DVD ). Chopin, Preludes, and pieces by Mompou; Alexandre Tharaud, piano (Harmonia Mundi). Brahms and Schumann Lieder; Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo-soprano, and Julius Drake, piano (Wigmore Hall Live). Read and comment. From newyorker.com.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
Editor Alan Rusbridger interviews Guardian first book award winner Alex Ross
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
In 1984, when I was fifteen and living in Washington, D.C., I stopped by the National Cathedral to watch Leonard Bernstein conduct a rehearsal of Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony, the “Resurrection.” Bernstein was preparing for a concert sponsored by an organization called Musicians Against Nuclear Arms, or MANA. I had . . .
Towleroad (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
New Yorker music critic Alex Ross won this year's Guardian first book award for his history of 20th century music The Rest is Noise : "The chair of the judging panel, Guardian literary editor Claire Armitstead, said: 'In some quarters...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
Congratulations to Alex Ross , the deserving winner of the 2008 Guardian first book award . There's been a massed chorus of appreciation for this work already, so I shan't add much, except to say that what I particular enjoy about it is the connections it makes between musics and musicians. I'm the sort of person who goes to a lot of concerts, plays the violin, has some kind of grasp...
Think Wink. (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
How can you not think this is not amazing artwork by Alex Ross? I’m just curious as to why everyone is looking at Captain America as he faces off against Steve Rogers/1940’s Cap? Wait, Bucky is fighting Steve Rogers? Does this cover clue the reader into what is going on in the story or not? [...]
Black Dogs (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Alex Ross’s much acclaimed history of 20th century music is undisputed winner of the 2008 Guardian first book award. Charlotte Higgins likes it. I think it’s quite a bad book, and I certainly wouldn’t recommend it to anyone, but let’s hope that the fact that it’s won this prize encourages authors to write and publishers to publish better ones on this and related subjects. It’s badly flawed...
Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
The Guardian First Book Award has gone to Alex Ross' acclaimed history of 20th century music The Rest Is Noise . (You'll remember that it was also shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys .) Claire Armitstead, Guardian literary editor and chair of judges points out that although the book was not seen as having popular appeal in some quarters : ... a huge appetite among readers for clear,...
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
New Yorker music critic Alex Ross has just been named the winner of this year’s Guardian First Book Award, for his kaleidoscopic music history tome The Rest is Noise. The prize is worth a cool £10,000. According to The Guardian: The chair of the judging panel, Guardian literary editor Claire Armistead, said: “In some quarters this book [...]
VOT3R (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, is to make a Commons statement today on the arrest of the Tory frontbencher Damian Green. Senior political correspondent Andrew Sparrow assesses the implications of yesterday's allegations from the Speaker, Michael Martin, that the police didn't have a search warrant...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
MacArthur laureate Alex Ross, whose history of classical music in the 20th century has already won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, has just received the £10,000 Guardian First Book Award. "The chair of the judging panel, Guardian literary editor Claire Armistead, said: 'In some quarters this book has been seen as not having a popular appeal. Our prize - which,...
The Plashing Vole (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
One of my favourite books, Alex Ross's The Rest is Noise , has won an award from my favourite newspaper, The Guardian (though it now calls itself theguardian because it has an inferiority complex about the web). Ross's book is a guide to modern classical music - it's informed, witty, educational and passionate, and it certainly made me go back to some music I'd overlooked and listen...
paramodern texts (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
BBC News (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Alex Ross wins the Guardian First Book Award for his musical history The Rest is Noise.
