Alex Ross (music critic)

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Alex Ross, 2008

Alex Ross (* 1968 ) is an American music critic .

life and work

Ross studied with the composer Peter Lieberson at Harvard University and graduated summa cum laude in 1990 with a thesis on James Joyce . He received a 2008 MacArthur Fellowship , two ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for music criticism and a Holtzbrinck grant from the American Academy in Berlin .

From 1992 to 1996 Ross was a music critic for the New York Times and also wrote for The New Republic , Slate , London Review of Books and Fanfare . He has been employed by The New Yorker magazine since 1996 . In 2009 he published The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century (2007 original edition, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century ), a much-discussed cultural history of 20th century classical music that is more in the style of a novel than one Technical book is written and accordingly largely dispensed with technical terms.

At the end of 2011 he received the 2012 Belmont Prize of the Forberg Schneider Foundation, endowed with € 20,000, for his book The Rest Is Noise ; "This tells knowledgeable and entertaining about the music of that time and opens up a new perspective on cultural history beyond the boundaries of classical, jazz, rock and pop," said the foundation in its laudation. In 2012 Ross was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

literature

  • Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century . Piper Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-05301-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Kelly: MacArthurs, Parked. In: artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. September 23, 2008, accessed February 8, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Björn Gottstein: One hundred years in one go. In: Spex . # 325 (March / April 2010), p. 106 f.
  3. ↑ Quoted from Süddeutsche Zeitung . dated November 8, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Ross, Alex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American music critic
DATE OF BIRTH 1968