Alex Ross
In Listen to This, the award-winning music critic and author of The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross looks forward and backward in musical culture: capturing essential figures in classical music history, as well as giving an alternative view of recent pop music.
From his own first encounter with classical music to vibrant sketches of Schubert, Verdi and Brahms; from in-depth interviews with modern pop masters such as Björk and Radiohead to the lives of a high school’s music students, Ross shows how music can express the full complexity of human experience. He explains how pop music can achieve the status of high art and how classical music can become a vital part of wider contemporary culture.
Witty, passionate and brimming with insight, Listen to This teaches us to listen more closely.
Reviews of Listen to This
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- ‘A magical mystery tour. The literary equivalent of an iPod on shuffle’ Guardian
- ‘Intensely illuminating. He wants to show you what is important about music, how it connects to the world and why you should care’ Observer
- ‘Dazzling. No one writing about classical music today has Ross’s gift for lateral thinking, for pinning down references and cues and scraps of sound that elude the rest of us’ Sunday Telegraph
- ‘Ross can stride nimbly over the keyboard of time and style without losing his ear for the feeling behind the form’ Independent
More from Alex Ross
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Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
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Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
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Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
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Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
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Listen to This
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The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
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The Rest Is Noise Series: Sunken Cathedrals: Music at Century’s End
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The Rest Is Noise Series: Zion Park: Messiaen, Ligeti, and the Avant-Garde of the Sixties
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The Rest Is Noise Series: “Grimes! Grimes!”: The Passion of Benjamin Britten
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The Rest Is Noise Series: Brave New World: The Cold War and the Avant-Garde of the Fifties
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The Rest Is Noise Series: Zero Hour: The U.S. Army and German Music, 1945–1949
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The Rest Is Noise Series: Death Fugue: Music in Hitler’s Germany
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The Rest Is Noise Series: Music for All: Music in FDR’s America
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The Rest Is Noise Series: The Art of Fear: Music in Stalin’s Russia
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The Rest Is Noise Series: City of Nets: Berlin in the Twenties
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The Rest Is Noise Series: Apparition from the Woods: The Loneliness of Jean Sibelius
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The Rest Is Noise Series: Invisible Men: American Composers from Ives to Ellington
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The Rest Is Noise Series: Dance of the Earth: The Rite, the Folk, le Jazz
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The Rest Is Noise Series: Doctor Faust: Schoenberg, Debussy, and Atonality
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The Rest Is Noise Series: The Golden Age: Strauss, Mahler, and the Fin de Siecle
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Listen to This
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Listen to This
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The Rest is Noise
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The Rest Is Noise Series: Beethoven Was Wrong: Bop, Rock, and the Minimalists
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The Rest is Noise
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