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.
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
| 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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