Алекс Росс «The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century»

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Автор Алекс Росс

Fourth Estate

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Published by Fourth Estate in 2007 and by Harper Perennial in 2009

First published in 2007 by Farrar Straus and Giroux in the United States

Alex Ross asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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Source ISBN: 9781841154763

Ebook Edition © DECEMBER 2012 ISBN: 9780007380862

Version: 2017-09-27

ALEX ROSS, music critic for the New Yorker, is the recipient of numerous awards for his work, including an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Belmont Prize in Germany, three honorary doctorates and a MacArthur Fellowship.

In 2013, a groundbreaking, year-long festival at the Southbank Centre will bring The Rest is Noise to life – with concerts, talks and other events inspired by the book

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2008

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD 2007

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2008

‘Just occasionally someone writes a book you’ve waited all your life to read. Alex Ross’s enthralling history of twentieth-century music is one of those books’

Guardian

‘A superb and inclusive account by a champion of modern music’

Sunday Times

‘Print is silent.

Which is why the task of writing about music is so difficult. I should therefore probably explain that the noise you now ought to be hearing is the sound of my hands as they stop typing and start applauding this vital, engaging, happily polyphonic book’

Observer

‘Magnificent: a study of the politics of music and also of the impact of political movements on music. A harmonious mix of musical gossip and politics’

Sunday Telegraph

‘To write a book that convincingly describes the path of classical music through the turbulent twentieth century is an act worthy of celebration. To write one, as Alex Ross has, that is entertaining, enlightening and inspiring to both devotees and less classically literate music fans is worth breaking out the bunting for’