Aug 28, 2008
Pages tagged “Alex Ross”
The Rest Is Noise
The blog of Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker and author of the acclaimed book The Rest Is Noise.
The blog of Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker and author of the acclaimed book The Rest Is Noise.
By Alex Ross.
To read excerpts, visit Alex’s blog. Alex also has links to listen to some of the works he discusses in the book.
A Brief Comment on a Common Objection to Atonality
Like so many others, I too am impressed by the new book by Alex Ross, “The Rest is Noise”, and am enjoying this perceptive, engaging and big spirited work. But I would like to comment on a suggestion or appraisal made in the book concerning the deep difficulties a listener faces with Schoenbergian atonality.
Like so many others, I too am impressed by the new book by Alex Ross, “The Rest is Noise”, and am enjoying this perceptive, engaging and big spirited work. But I would like to comment on a suggestion or appraisal made in the book concerning the deep difficulties a listener faces with Schoenbergian atonality.
I sympathize with the predicament of composers who feel a sincere and dedicated obligation to the cause of modernity and are suspicious of perorations in E-flat major, which the Sibelius 5th patently features.