All Entries Tagged With: "Alex Ross"
Wry
Alex Ross writes about Tan Dun with a little more finesse that this bivalve can muster on the subject.
“Tan quickly gravitated to New York’s downtown scene, particularly to the world of John Cage. By combining Cage’s chance processes and natural noises with plush Romantic melodies, Tan concocted a kind of crowd-pleasing avant-gardism.
In March, at [...]
Thanks For The Laughs, Gang
Miss Mussel is in the final throes of manuscript finishing up and it seems the book is not going down without a fight. Some sort of black hole or parallel universe has been entered in which adding 5000 words makes the text need 5000 more. Should Miss Mussel attempt deke out this cosmic [...]
Video: Alex Ross on Colbert
Well, at least a link to the video. For reasons that still baffle Miss Mussel’s not insubstantial technical brain, embedding from a variety of sources has simply refused to work. So, for perhaps the first time in the history of the world, it’s viola to the rescue. If that doesn’t work, try this.
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“More than enough music for a lifetime of thinking and listening”
…[Mr Ross] writes about even recondite works and obscure composers with intelligent absorption. He offers a skeptical world living proof that a smart, curious listener can find pleasures and challenges in new music — whether that music is opera or free jazz or avant-garde pop. As a result, he is one of the few critics [...]
