I may not, even now, be able to articulate a difference between atonality and twelve-tone music (is there one?), but I love being told that 'some stabbing single notes' in a second movement are like 'a knife in Stalin's heart.' You may not speak French, but you can tell that Juliette Binoche has reached a point of existential doubt in a meretricious relationship. You know how you can watch a foreign language movie, without subtitles, and still enjoy the film? You may not speak German but can still tell that Hitler's pissed off.

In 2005 he married the actor and filmmaker Jonathan Lisecki. 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. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

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