Alex Ross (music critic)

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

Life and work

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

1992-1996 Ross was a music critic for the New York Times and wrote for The New Republic, Slate, London Review of Books and fanfare. Since 1996 he has been employed by the New Yorker magazine. In 2009 he published The Rest is Noise: The 20th Century hear (English original 2007 edition, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century ), a much-discussed cultural history of classical music of the 20th century, as one more in the style of a novel textbook is written and, accordingly, giving up most of technical terms. He received in late 2011 with prize money of € 20,000 Belmont Prize 2012, the Forberg - Schneider Foundation for his book The Rest Is Noise; " Tell this knowledgeable and entertaining by the music of the period and opens up beyond the limits of classical, jazz, rock and pop away a new perspective on the cultural history ," said the Foundation in her speech.