Alex Ross
Person on 4 sites
Music critic of The New Yorker and author of The Rest Is Noise, Listen to This and Wagnerism.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
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4 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Contemporary composition is as vital as ever. (opens korrents.com)
“Although the musical scene exhilarates me more than ever - contemporary composition is eternally vital - I wouldn't want to overstay my welcome.”
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Criticism as a field of writing is declining today. (opens korrents.com)
“David Remnick, who has given me free rein at a time when criticism is withering away”
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Prose written in an intensely musical, rhythmically dense style is inherently difficult for composers to adapt successfully into music. (opens korrents.com)
“Writers of such concentrated style can pose a danger for composers.”
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Contemporary composition is as vital as ever. (opens korrents.com)
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5 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Infinite Variety of Music (opens rcmnd.app)
“When I was very young, I loved the fact that Bernstein's language was so vivid. I was already sold on the music. As far back as I can remember my parents had the records and were playing them, and I took to them…”
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The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner (opens rcmnd.app)
“The other thing about Nietzsche's writing about Wagner is that it's wonderfully brilliant, unpredictable vivid and perceptive, even when he's deliberately distorting the material for a certain effect or working out his…”
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Doctor Faustus (opens rcmnd.app)
“I read Doctor Faustus when I was around 18 and something about the book just overwhelmed me. It was one of the most intense reading experiences of my life.”
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The Infinite Variety of Music (opens rcmnd.app)