The Rest Is Noise - by Alex Ross (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Ross, music critic for "The New Yorker," journeys from Vienna before the First World War to New York in the 1970s and 80s. The result is not so much a history of 20th-century music as it is a history of the 20th century through its music.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism<br>A <i>New York Times Book Review </i>Top Ten Book of the Year<i><br>Time magazine </i>Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007<br><i><br>Newsweek </i>Favorite Books of 2007<br>A <i>Washington Post Book World</i> </b><b>Best Book of 2007</b> <p/>In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for <i>The New Yorker</i>, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. <i>The Rest Is Noise</i> is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"<i>The Rest Is Noise </i>is a great achievement. Rilke once wrote of how he learned to stand 'more seeingly' in front of certain paintings. Ross enables us to listen more hearingly." --<i>Geoff Dyer, The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"[A] Brilliant, hugely enjoyable cultural history." --<i>The Christian Science Monitor</i> <p/>"Ross is a surpremely gifted writer who brings together the political and technological richness of the world inside the magic circle of the concert hall, so that each illuminates the other." --<i>Lev Grossman, Time</i> <p/>"It would be hard to imagine a better guide to the maelstrom of recent music than Mr. Ross, who worked on this book for a decade. He has an almost uncanny gift for putting music into words." --<i>The Economist</i> <p/>"<i>The Rest Is Noise </i>is a long and thrilling ride. . . . [Ross] writes about music in vivid language humming with intelligence. He tells great stories about musicians' lives and illuminates their work with the light of his own experiences." --<i>Kevin Berger, Salon.com</i> <p/>"The best book on what music is about--<i>really</i> about--that you or I will ever own." --<i>Alan Rich, LA Weekly</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Alex Ross </b>has been the music critic of <i>The New Yorker</i> since 1996. His first book, the international bestseller<i> The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century</i>, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won a National Book Critics Circle Award. His second book, the essay collection <i>Listen to This</i>, received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2008 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2015.
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