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Leaves of Leifs
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Ten years ago, I excitedly greeted Arní Heimir Ingólfsson's biography of Jón Leifs, even though it was in Icelandic and I understood nary a word. It took a little while, but Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland, Arní's... Continue reading
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Video of the day: Fuck Wagner
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Posted Dec 4, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Nightafternight playlist
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Facce d'Amore: Arias of Cavalli, Handel, Boretti; Jakub Józef Orliński, with Maxim Emelyanychev and Il Pomo D'oro (Erato) Olga Neuwirth, ...miramondo multiplo..., Remnants of Songs, Masaot / Clocks without Hands; Ingo Metzmacher conducting the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, with Håkan... Continue reading
Posted Nov 28, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Preliminary end-of-year list
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Early selections for my list of Notable Recordings of 2019. — Bruckner, Symphony No. 9; Manfred Honeck conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony (Reference) — Weinberg, Symphonies Nos. 2 and 21; Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with the... Continue reading
Posted Nov 18, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Bell, water, power
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Posted Nov 8, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Thought of the day
"The people who are in control, the worst of the worst who are attacking us with anger, brutality, deception, exploitation, suppression, intimidation . . . those people, like myself, are old. They’re at the end of their time, too. And... Continue reading
Posted Oct 26, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Miscellany
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Admirers of John Schaefer's long-running and hugely influential WNYC show New Sounds are reeling in shock from the station's decision to cancel the program — or, to quote a stomach-churning locution in an internal e-mail, “sunset the New Sounds brand."... Continue reading
Posted Oct 12, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Porgy at the Met, Venables's Denis
Star-Crossed. The New Yorker, Oct. 14, 2019. Continue reading
Posted Oct 12, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Essay on Nietzsche
The Eternal Return. The New Yorker, Oct. 14, 2019. Continue reading
Posted Oct 12, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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There was a third book
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Last week I turned in the manuscript of my third book, Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music. Having spent nine years writing it, I'm now not entirely sure what to do with myself. To be sure, much... Continue reading
Posted Oct 4, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Jessye Norman in memoriam
A Postscript on the New Yorker website. Continue reading
Posted Oct 3, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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A Nightafternight playlist
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New and recent releases of interest. — Morton Feldman Piano; Philip Thomas (another timbre) — Feldman, For Bunita Marcus; Aki Takahashi (Mode) — Bruckner, Symphony No. 9; Manfred Honeck conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony (Reference) — Julia Wolfe, Fire in my... Continue reading
Posted Oct 3, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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For Jessye Norman
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Posted Oct 1, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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For Christopher Rouse
The widely admired American composer, a musical thinker of force, wit, and deep emotion, has died at the age of seventy. His Sixth Symphony will have its première next month at the Cincinnati Symphony. Continue reading
Posted Sep 22, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Mistakes at the LA Phil
It's unfortunate that the Los Angeles Philharmonic, one of the world's leading orchestras, has been suffering from muddled leadership on the part of its board of directors. When Deborah Borda left the LA Phil's top administrative post in 2017, the... Continue reading
Posted Sep 18, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Petrenko in Berlin
Safe Space. The New Yorker, Sept. 16, 2019. Continue reading
Posted Sep 10, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Nightafternight playlist
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New and recent recordings of interest. Feldman, For Bunita Marcus; Aki Takahashi (Mode) Beethoven, Complete Piano Sonatas; Igor Levit (Sony) Clara Schumann, Piano Concerto, Piano Sonata in G Minor, and other works; Isata Kanneh-Mason with Holly Mathieson conducting the Royal... Continue reading
Posted Aug 12, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Korngold at Bard
Surround Sound. The New Yorker, Aug. 19, 2109. Continue reading
Posted Aug 12, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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A Trevor Bača moment
Ashley Walters performing Bača's Nähte at a WasteLAnd event, Nov. 16, 2018. Walters will play the same piece live at Outhaus in LA on Aug. 1, as part of a three-day Underwolf Records festival (July 31 – Aug. 2). Many... Continue reading
Posted Jul 19, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Bookshelf
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New and recent publications of interest. Melissa Burrage, The Karl Muck Scandal: Classical Music and Xenophobia in World War I America (Boydell and Brewer) Cate Haste, Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler (Basic Books) Shayne Carter, Dead People I... Continue reading
Posted Jul 10, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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The Karl Muck affair
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For the New Yorker website, I've written a Cultural Comment on two recent books that describe the absurd and frightening Karl Muck hysteria of 1917-18. Above is a cartoon from the period. One rumor pegged Muck as Wagner's illegitimate son,... Continue reading
Posted Jul 2, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Miscellany
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"No musical administrator is more widely respected or well liked than Ara Guzelimian," I wrote on this blog in 2007, shortly after Ara left Carnegie Hall to become Dean of Juilliard. Ara recently announced that he will step down from... Continue reading
Posted Jun 30, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Monk's ATLAS, Davis's Central Park Five
Earth Songs. The New Yorker, July 1, 2019. Continue reading
Posted Jun 24, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Thought of the day
"When Wagner 'thinks,' he stumbles." — Nietzsche Continue reading
Posted Jun 23, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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Stockhausen's LICHT in Amsterdam
Infinity Opera. The New Yorker, June 24, 2019. Continue reading
Posted Jun 17, 2019 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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