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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century Alex Ross ebook
ISBN: 0312427719, 9780312427719
Publisher: Picador
Format: epub
Page: 1620

Alex Ross began writing for The New Yorker in 1993 and became the magazine's music critic in 1996. "The Rest is Noise", his best-selling 2007 book on the history of the 20th century through its music, is now being re-worked as a year-long music festival at the Southbank centre in London. He explains the links between “West Side Story” and Arnold Schoenberg, and finds corresponding sounds in the music of Jean Sibelius and John Coltrane. Much of his new book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, is spent wrestling with the idea of the push and pull of the crowd and the “split between modernist and populist conceptions of the composer's role. The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross. Art is always in dialog with the time of its creation, so this book is looking at 20th century music. Better yet, his narrative is ultimately one of hope and perseverance, not despair and decline as the more conservative critics tend to see it. A conversation with author & music critic Alex Ross about his book *The Rest is Noise : Listening to the Twentieth Century*, a cultural history of music since 1900. That was the world I was completely absorbed in. One of my favourite music books of the last few years is Alex Ross's 'The Rest Is Noise: Listening To the Twentieth Century' (Faber). The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Although Mr Ross was not involved in organising the festival, he will be giving four lectures on the early-20th century period—so it all coalesced. €�The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century is a voyage into the labyrinth of modern music, which remains an obscure world for most people. I grew up listening to classical music in the traditional sense, from Bach to Brahms. Not all of them are music-related, but a high proportion of them are. Since I do lot of teaching I read a lot of books. Don't take my word for it, or Bjork's, or the New York Times', which this week selected his The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century as one of the ten best books of 2007. WHY WE THINK THE REST IS NOISE ROCKS: Alex Ross knows music. After all, he has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996.