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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<\/em><\/a>, and bloggie-nominated-finalist<\/a> blogger<\/a>, will appear on the Colbert Report<\/a> tonight, Tuesday January 29, 2008 (guest subject to change, would be the required caveat).\u00c2\u00a0 Go figure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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).\u00c2\u00a0 Go figure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[148,115,1],"tags":[440,443],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-music","category-news","tag-classical-music-critic","tag-the-rest-is-noise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-bA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1163,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/23\/alex-ross-is-a-genius\/","url_meta":{"origin":718,"position":0},"title":"alex ross IS a genius","author":"Charles Noble","date":"September 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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His two books would make a nice companion to our CD for a music-loving person on your holiday gift list, btw.","rel":"","context":"In "appreciation"","block_context":{"text":"appreciation","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/appreciations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/07\/critics-critiqued\/","url_meta":{"origin":718,"position":3},"title":"critics critiqued","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 7, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I found this link via The Oregonian's classical music critic David Stabler's blog. Very interesting reading. Basically, Time Out New York put together a panel of critics to evaluate the major critics in New York City in all major areas, including classical music. 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