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Alex Ross

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American music critic (born 1968)

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Alex Ross is an American music critic and author who specializes in classical music. Ross has been a staff member of The New Yorker magazine since 1996. His extensive writings include performance and record reviews, industry updates, cultural commentary, and historical narratives in the realm of classical music.

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2008MacArthur Fellows Program
2008Guardian First Book Award
2007National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
2002Berlin Prize
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Guggenheim Fellowship

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Alex Ross is an American music critic and author who specializes in classical music. Ross has been a staff member of The New Yorker magazine since 1996. His extensive writings include performance and record reviews, industry updates, cultural commentary, and historical narratives in the realm of classical music. He has written three well-received books: The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (2007), Listen to This (2011), and Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music (2020).

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Born 1968 · age 58
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