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Alex Ross
Presents "Listen to This – Bass Lines of Music History"
Monday, October 18, 2010
Crest Theatre | 7:30 p.m.
As the music critic for The New Yorker, Alex Ross has become a well-respected voice on all things musical and has won numerous awards and extensive praise for his work as a writer. His first book, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, was a national bestseller and the New York Times chose it as one of the ten best books of 2007. This first written venture also won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the Guardian First Book Award, the Royal Philharmonic Society Creative Communication Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Samuel Johnson Prize. Ross has received an honorary doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music, a Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center, and three ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards. He has served as a McGraw Professor in writing at Princeton University and in 2008 he was named a MacArthur Fellow. Ross’s latest work, Listen to This, highlights some of the best essays written during his tenure at The New Yorker.
“Ross is a supremely gifted writer who brings together the political and technological richness of the world inside the magic circle of the concert hall, so that each illuminates the other.” –Time magazine
Lecture Preview | Crest Theatre | 6:30-7:00 p.m.
