Alex Ross
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After 17 years of hunting the best new writing, of terrific winners and terrific rows, we’re saying goodbye to the prize. It will leave lots of great memories – please share yours
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Ahead of a major retrospective at MoMA, New York, acclaimed music writer Alex Ross traces Björk’s musical journey
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The Rest is Noise book author Alex Ross, London Philharmonic Orchestra's principal conductor Vladimir Jurowski and singer Meow Meow discuss Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera
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As London's Southbank continues its festival of 20th century music based on the book The Rest is Noise, author Alex Ross talks to Alan Rusbridger
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USB Soundscapes: Eclectica – John Adams; The Rest is Noise: LPO/ Jurowski; Britten Sinfonia – review
John Adams conducts his own Shaker Loops, and the Britten Sinfonia and Mark Padmore have a power lunch, writes Fiona Maddocks
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In anticipation of the Southbank Centre's year-long The Rest is Noise festival, conductors, musicians and artists share their favourite classical works from a century of musical turbulence
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Editorial: Alex Ross's book shows that the culture of the 20th century cannot be neatly divided into high- and lowbrow
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The Southbank, Barbican, ENO and BBC4 are catering for the new-found appetite for sonic adventure
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London's Southbank Centre to host year-long festival inspired by Alex Ross's study of 20th-century classical music
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The best of your comments on the latest films and music
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Alex Ross, the acclaimed New Yorker music critic and author of The Rest Is Noise, discusses the strange landscape where pop meets classical music with Paul Morley
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Tom Service: Alex Ross makes a valid point about many concertgoers' dislike of new music, but British audiences are ahead of the game. If only we could speed up the process
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Paperback of the week: The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross
Exhaustive, and occasionally exhausting, read, and the breadth and depth of its scholarship is breathtaking says Sean O'Hagan -
Review: The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross
Ross is not only good on the big picture but masterly in his choice of detail, says Nicholas Lezard
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Judge Francine Stock reflects on the 2008 Guardian first book award, while Alex Ross tells the editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, how he told the history of the 20th century through music
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Alex Ross's much acclaimed history of 20th century music is undisputed winner of the 2008 prize
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Nominee for the Guardian first book award talks to Claire Armitstead about The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
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In the second of our interviews with shortlisted authors we talk to Alex Ross
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Allied forces taking possession of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen resort the day after Hitler's suicide enter the home of composer Richard Strauss in this extract from Alex Ross' The Rest is Noise
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Is Alex Ross the most exciting thing to have happened to classical music this century? Alan Rusbridger meets a revolutionary critic, blogger and author
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New Yorker critic Alex Ross points out what you wouldn't hear otherwise, which is why his new book is so readable even if you don't agree with him, says Christopher Bonanos.
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