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Batman nella serie Justice di Krueger, Braithwaite e Ross
Batman The Dark Knight | 19 hours ago by Luigi Siviero
Blog Stats June 2008
Black Dogs | July 1st 2008 by R.A.D. Stainforth
Facts and figures courtesy of Google Analytics.She lit a cheroot and suddenly the world smelled like the inside of a cupboard that hadn’t been opened for years.(Rupert Thomson, The Five Gates of Hell)Between 1 June and 30 June 2008, 1,869 absolute read more
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ros…
Black Dogs | June 26th 2008 by R.A.D. Stainforth
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. (William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark) I always thought Alex Ross was at worst harmless and at best not uninteresting, for a music read more
Review - “Justice Vol. 1″
Shuffleboil | June 11th 2008 by John
In this clever first volume collecting issues of the comic book “Justice,” super villains stick it to the Justice League of America by beating them at their own game — saving humanity. Sometimes serious attempts at superhero tales work and othe read more
Naipaul book nominated for prize
1stAngel | May 16th 2008 by 1stAngel
An unflattering biography of Nobel- prize winning writer VS Naipaul is among six books shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. The true story of a Victorian murder, a book on the lives of rooks and jackdaws and a chronicle of Stali read more
more brilliance from A-ross
daily observations | May 2nd 2008
Alex Ross, music writer for the New Yorker, who was Pulitzer shortlisted for his music history page-turner The Rest Is Noise, and blogger at the site of the same name, just wrote a review of the series presented at Carnegie Hall by the Brentano Quart read more
brilliant criticism
daily observations | May 1st 2008
Throughout history, the great works of literature (whether well-received or not) have sparked equally great works of literary criticism. Alex Ross’ brilliant history of music in the twentieth century has sparked criticism of the highest order read more
Amusia - La Uña, El Martillo & The Impossible Thoughts
Composing Stories | March 24th 2008 by Xavier Losada
“There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear.” John Cage I. The song started as a research of noise, rhythm and melody interpreting certain amusia‘ degrees. II. Late read more
Classical music's most exciting thing today?
On An Overgrown Path | March 19th 2008
Today's Guardian asks 'is this the most exciting thing to have happened to classical music this century?' - Thomas Adès? Osvaldo Golijov? or even Gustavo Dudamel? - er .. no.They were demanding jazz and rock and roll way back.Image credit Matrix Bus read more
Views shared by many involved in new music?
On An Overgrown Path | March 10th 2008
johnsonsrambler has left a new comment on your post "A tale of two continents":Pliable is right, the criticism on Radio 3 had very little to do with Ross's coverage of British music - this was merely a (cheap) ploy by the presenter to get a debate go read more
A tale of two continents
On An Overgrown Path | March 8th 2008
Listen on-demand (until March 15) to today's BBC Radio 3 Music Matters review of Alex Ross' The Rest is Noise book. Morag Grant, who teaches at the European College of Liberal Arts in Berlin, describes it as the "Donald Rumsfeld view of music history read more
alex ross on colbert report
daily observations | January 31st 2008
I’m sure that many of you may have seen this elsewhere, but for those of you who have not, here is the video: Share This read more
interesting idea for pdx?
daily observations | January 29th 2008
The Seattle Chamber Players presented their fourth Icebreaker Festival of contemporary classical music this past weekend in Seattle. Present was current classical music writer/rockstar Alex Ross, who curated a concert of works by seven young New Yor read more
alex ross - rockstar
daily observations | January 29th 2008
Alex Ross, classical music critic for the New Yorker, and critically-acclaimed author of the critically-acclaimed book The Rest is Noise, and bloggie-nominated-finalist blogger, will appear on the Colbert Report tonight, Tuesday January 29, 2008 (gue read more
alex ross & marin alsop on charlie rose
daily observations | January 18th 2008
See the video after the jump (click on title above or link at left to view entire post and see video). Share This Related posts carlos kalmar interview (0) berlin phil mahler 9 on opb (0) audiences pendulum keeps swinging (4) stabler lists to read more
The Perils of Perfectionism
Grant Writing Confidential | January 16th 2008 by Jake
In Alex Ross’s The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, he writes: “Studio heads were confident that Stravinsky’s name would prove a box office draw; Louis B. Mayer reportedly agreed to give the composer a whooping $10 read more
The long tail reaches out
On An Overgrown Path | January 6th 2008
From today's Observer arts section. As I've said before, all classical music needs are more animateurs.With thanks to that great animateur Alex Ross whose New Yorker article was reprinted in the Observer. There doesn't seem to be a web version of the read more
Webernification (or: Me vs. Atonality, Part 10,243)
Classical Convert | January 5th 2008 by Ben
After reading the section in The Rest Is Noise about Webern I was immediately inspired to grab a copy of the 6 Pieces, despite my current dislike of truly atonal pieces. What grabbed me so much from the pages? “It is an incomparably disturbing read more
The Rest Is Noise on Holiday
Classical Convert | January 4th 2008 by Ben
I’m vacationing downsouth in the wildly wiles of South Carolina, currently, and to a general audience of surprise and satisfaction there is wireless in existence. Praise be! Simultaneously with this pleasing, non-lab, intermittent internetting, read more
Worst Messiah Mishap ever
Jason Heath's Double Bass Blog | December 12th 2007 by Jason Heath
I blogged this about the same time last year, but Alex Ross reminded me of this fantastically amusing musical disaster. Although I like to think of my Nutcracker disaster story as a great holiday mishap, this one really takes the cake. My recen read more
Worst Messiah Mishap ever
Jason Heath's Bass Page | December 12th 2007
I blogged this about the same time last year, but Alex Ross reminded me of this fantastically amusing musical disaster. Although I like to think of my Nutcracker disaster story as a great holiday mishap, this one really takes the cake. My re read more
Songs of freedom
On An Overgrown Path | November 27th 2007
Alex Ross turns to the Venezuela problem, and quotes Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer: "Art within the constraints of a system is political action in favor of that system, regardless of content." I can only agree and re-run this post:The role of t read more
Vexations repeated
On An Overgrown Path | November 24th 2007
I think this is what is known as a 'heads down' for my story.Any copyrighted material on these pages is included as "fair use", for the purpose of study, review or critical analysis only, and will be removed at the request of copyright owner(s). Repo read more
New music from the old world
On An Overgrown Path | November 15th 2007
Interesting article in French over on ConcertoNet.com about twentieth century music in general and Alex Ross' new book in particular. (Flaky machine translation here.) The writer is sometime Overgrown Path contributor Antoine Leboyer who highlights s read more
Uncle Sam ain't helping, so it's up to US.
Caught In The Stream | October 12th 2007 by Francis Scudellari
If you're anywhere near Chicago this Sunday, come out to the Wishbone restaurant at 1001 W. Washington to help support local musician Micki Croisant whose mother got blindsided by an illness that cost her her job and health insurance. There will be g read more
Cap Lives!
Face Rockery | October 11th 2007 by Gino Carteciano
This is the cover of Captain America #34, which will drop in January 2008. It’s by Alex Ross, and it features the new Captain America. I don’t really care about Ross tweaking the costume, and I think the gun and the knife are sorta cool. read more
Heroes HC
Seraphim Proudleduck | August 24th 2007
Heroes HC Written by Aron Eli Coleite, Chuck Kim, Joe Pokaski, Oliver Grigsby, Pierluigi Cothran, Andrew Chambliss, Harrison Wilcox, Jesse Alexander, Christopher Zatta, Mark Warshaw and others Art by Phil Jimenez, Michael Turner, Koi Turnbull, Marcus read more
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