At least according to the MacArthur Foundation, who made Ross one of its 2008 Genius Grant Fellows. Here’s his bio from the Foundation website: Alex Ross is a critic whose writing captures the often-elusive aesthetic and technical aspects of classical and contemporary music with clarity, grace, and wit. A staff writer for the New Yorker,
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Throughout history, the great works of literature (whether well-received or not) have sparked equally great works of literary criticism. Alex Ross’ brilliant history of music in the twentieth century has sparked criticism of the highest order – most lately by the great British tenor Ian Bostridge, writing in the Times Literary Supplement (think the English
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I’m sure that many of you may have seen this elsewhere, but for those of you who have not, here is the video:
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Alex Ross, classical music critic for the New Yorker, and critically-acclaimed author of the critically-acclaimed book The Rest is Noise, and bloggie-nominated-finalist blogger, will appear on the Colbert Report tonight, Tuesday January 29, 2008 (guest subject to change, would be the required caveat). Go figure!
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