![]() ![]() When Richard Strauss conducted his opera Salome on May 16, 1906, in the Austrian city of Graz, several crowned heads of European music gathered to witness the event. trying to swerve out of the way of a cat." Richards, the author of the ASPCA Complete Guide to Cats, who, he explained, "died in a motorcycle accident. When Mstislav Rostropovich died in early 2007, for instance, Ross described the conductor and musician as "an overwhelming life force in the form of a cellist." The day before, he saluted Dr. His blog,, shows him to be democratic in his tastes and human in his approach, with an ear for the odd bit of irony. Ross, an award-winning critic, is known for the accessibility and sense of humor he brings to his subject, both at The New Yorker, where he has been since 1996, and before that at the New York Times, where he was a music critic for four years. And it began all over again numerous times as the century went on, as composers were constantly reinventing the language of music." "It was beginning again in a new key - or a lack of key. "No, classical music did not glide to a halt sometime around 1900," he says. New Yorker critic Alex Ross sets out "to assault" that notion in his ambitious first book, The Rest is Noise. Each week, we present leading authors of fiction and nonfiction as they read from and discuss their work.įor decades, classical music has been pronounced dead - or at least dying. Music News Classical Music: 2005 and Beyondīook Tour is a Web feature and podcast. ![]()
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