Evening Music

Must Have 2007: Alex Ross

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Author and critic Alex Ross joins host Katherine Lanpher to share the music that he just can't live without. Part of WNYC's 2007 Must Have Festival.

Alex Ross

Music critic of The New Yorker since 1996, this writer's work has also appeared in The New Republic, The London Review of Books, Lingua Franca, and The Guardian. From 1992 to 1996 he was a critic at The New York Times. His first book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, a cultural history of music since 1900, was published in October 2007 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

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Alex Ross's Must Have Picks

Alex Ross's Must Have Picks

Intermezzos, Op. 117, no. 1	Johannes Brahms	buy CD
Simple Twist of Fate	Bob Dylan	buy CD
Neruda Songs: no. 5	Peter Lieberson	buy CD
Everything In Its Right Place	Radiohead	buy CD
Quartet for the End of Time, final mvt.	Olivier Messiaen	buy CD
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