The Rest is Noise - Listening to the Twentieth Century

Informationen zum Autor Alex Ross graduated from Harvard in 1990. He wrote for the New York Times from 1992 until 1996 when he became staff writer at the New Yorker . His first book The Rest is Noise is about the cultural history of music since 1990, which won the Guardian First Book Award. It was also shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson non-fiction prize and the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of Listen to This . He lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext Alex Ross's sweeping history of twentieth-century classical music, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, is a gripping account of a musical revolution. Zusammenfassung Alex Ross’s sweeping history of twentieth-century classical music, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, is a gripping account of a musical revolution.

Product details

• Authors: Alex Ross, Ross Alex
• Publisher: Harper Perennial UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.2009
• EAN: 9781841154763
• ISBN: 978-1-84115-476-3
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 52 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Music, 20th Century, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Music: styles and genres, Art music, orchestral and formal music