Alex Ross bibliography

A list of the works by or about music critic Alex Ross.

Books

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  • Ross, Alex (2007). The rest is noise : listening to the Twentieth Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • — (2010). Listen to this. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • — (2020). Wagnerism : art and politics in the shadow of music. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
    • — (2020). Wagnerism : art and politics in the shadow of music (U.K. ed.). London: 4th Estate.

Essays, reporting and other contributions

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1993–2009

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  • Ross, Alex (April 12, 1993). "Grand seductions". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 69 (8): 115–120.[1]
  • — (April 25, 1994). "Generation Exit". Postscript. The New Yorker.
  • — (September 4, 1995). "Mahlermania". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker.
  • — (March 11, 1996). "Mann in Love". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker.
  • — (August 19, 1996). "The shock of the true". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker.
  • — (August 26, 1996). "The musical kaleidoscope". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker.
  • — (December 16, 1996). "The battle of Britten". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker.
  • — (February 3, 1997). "Great soul". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker.
  • — (February 17, 1997). "Native sons". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker.
  • — (March 10, 1997). "Beautiful Nightmare". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker.
  • — (March 24, 1997). "The Shining". The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker.
  • — (April 14, 1997). "Johnny One–Note". The Talk of the Town. De–Programming Heaven's Gate. The New Yorker. 73 (8): 32–33.
  • — (April 28 – May 5, 1997). "The Finnish crescendo". The Talk of the Town. The New Yorker. 73 (10): 55–56.
  • — (May 26, 1997). "The pavement tapes : how a rock band became famous for lyrics that make no sense". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 73 (13): 85–87.
  • — (2006). "Doctor Atomic 'Countdown'". In Gaitskill, Mary & Daphne Carr (eds.). Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006 : the year's finest writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, & more. Cambridge: Da Capo Press.

2010–2014

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2015–2019

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2020–

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Critical studies and reviews of Ross' work

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Wagnerism
  • Halliwell, Michael (January–February 2021). "'Endless melody by the year' : Alex Ross's paean to Richard Wagner". Australian Book Review. 428: 31–32.

Notes

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  1. ^ Review of Koestenbaum, Wayne (1993). The queen's throat : opera, homosexuality, and the mystery of desire. New York: Poseidon Press.
  2. ^ Discusses baritone Gerald Finley.
  3. ^ Peter Gelb and the 2010/11 season at the Metropolitan Opera.
  4. ^ William Christie at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
  5. ^ New York City Opera's production of Leonard Bernstein's opera A Quiet Place.
  6. ^ Andris Nelsons.
  7. ^ Discusses John Adams' Nixon in China; eighth blackbird's Tune-In Festival; John Luther Adams' Inuksuit.
  8. ^ The Metropolitan Opera production of Siegfried at the Met.
  9. ^ The Lincoln Center's White Light Festival.
  10. ^ On Carlo Gesualdo.
  11. ^ Philip Glass.
  12. ^ Joyce DiDonato's "Drama Queens" at Carnegie Hall.
  13. ^ 100 years of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
  14. ^ Witold Lutoslawski.
  15. ^ West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and the Afghanistan National Institute of Music.
  16. ^ Written on Skin.
  17. ^ Title in the online table of contents is "Symphonies and Sing-Alongs".
  18. ^ Online version is titled "Opera's Bad Girl".
  19. ^ Title in the online table of contents is "A hundred years of Orson Welles".
  20. ^ David Lang.
  21. ^ Online version is titled "Italianate ardor, beyond Puccini".
  22. ^ Online version is titled "The cosmic message of 'William Tell'".
  23. ^ Online version is titled "Bach’s holy dread".
  24. ^ Online version is titled "Kate Soper’s philosophy-opera".
  25. ^ Online version is titled "A complex concerto for Yo–Yo Ma".
  26. ^ Online version is titled "New York celebrates a composer who left town".
  27. ^ Online version is titled "The L.A. Philharmonic celebrates Iceland".
  28. ^ Online version is titled "Renée Fleming and Alan Gilbert take their bows".
  29. ^ Online version is titled "The Salzburg Festival reawakens".
  30. ^ Online version is titled "Infrasound opera".
  31. ^ Online version is titled "Leonard Bernstein and the perils of hero worship".
  32. ^ Online version is titled "The Shed attempts to inject culture into Hudson Yards".
  33. ^ Online version is titled "Antonio Salieri's revenge".
  34. ^ Online version is titled "Sorrowful songs at the White Light Festival".
  35. ^ Online version is titled "Opera against the patriarchy".
  36. ^ Title in the online table of contents is "Operatic shows of force".
  37. ^ Online version is titled "Conjuring the music of Proust’s salons".
  38. ^ Online version is titled "The musical mysteries of Josquin".
  39. ^ Online version is titled "Richard Neutra's architectural vanishing act".
  40. ^ Online version is titled "How the South Dakota Symphony became one of America's boldest orchestras".
  41. ^ Online version is titled "How radical was Rachmaninoff?".
  42. ^ Online version is titled "Hildegard of Bingen composes the cosmos".
  43. ^ Online version is titled "The Sonic Signatures of Salvatore Sciarrino and Kaija Saariaho".
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