Alex Ross (2) (1968–)
Auteur de The rest is noise : A l'écoute du XXe siècle, la modernité en musique
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A propos de l'auteur
Alex Ross was born in 1968. He attended St. Alban's School in Washington, D.C. and graduated from Harvard University in 1990. It was there that he studied under composer Peter Lieberson and was a D.J. on the classical and underground rock departments of the college radio station. He earned a afficher plus Harvard A.B. in English summa cum laude for a thesis on James Joyce. From the years, 1992-1996, Alex Ross was a music critic at the New York Times. He also wrote for the New Republic, Slate, and The London Review of Books. In 1993 he started contributing to The New Yorker and became a staff writer in 1996. In 2007 his released his first book in the U.S. entitled The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, a cultural history of music since 1900. This book received widespread crritical praise in the U.S. and earned a National Book Critics Circle Award, a spot on New York Times list of the ten best books of 2007, and a finalist citation for the Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction. His second book - Listen to This- was published in September 2010. Alex Ross has also received a Holtzbrink fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Alex Ross
Best Music Writing 2011 (Da Capo Best Music Writing) (2011) — Directeur de publication — 43 exemplaires
'Ghost Sonata' in AFR, 30 July 2004 1 exemplaire
'Mann in love' in The New Yorker, 11 March 1996 [review of various biographies of Mann] 1 exemplaire
How American Racism Influenced Hitler 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1968
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Études
- St Albans School, Washington DC, USA
Harvard University
Potomac School - Professions
- music critic
- Relations
- Lisecki, Jonathan (partner)
- Organisations
- The New Yorker
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The Rest is Noise #2 à Le Salon Littéraire du Peuple pour le Peuple (Décembre 2012)
The Rest is Noise #1 à Le Salon Littéraire du Peuple pour le Peuple (Juin 2012)
Getting ready for The Rest Is Noise à Le Salon Littéraire du Peuple pour le Peuple (Avril 2012)
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