Alex Ross
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Virgil Thomson "…reviews, though couched in opinion—which is what makes them either illuminating or maddening but also, one hopes, compelling and worth debating—are fundamentally reportage. They are the chronicles of the cultural world, accounts of who did what on a given night, in a given hall, before hundreds or thousands of people interested enough to
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Mantra Percussion, by Ian Douglas/The New York Times Mantra Percussion at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, December 13, 2012The New York Times, Dec. 15, 2013 Michael Gordon's new percussion sextet, Timber, ended up on both my year-end Top 10 list for Time Out New York (details of which will come in a subsequent post) and
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Blair McMillen at BargemusicThe New York Times, December 6, 2011 Alex Ross has a report on Blair McMillen's previous performance of Morton Feldman's Triadic Memories at Bargemusic, presented in July.
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Argento Chamber Ensemble at the Austrian Cultural ForumThe New York Times, September 4, 2010 In which the consistently impressive Argento players once again do right by the music of Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas, one of the most striking and original voices in contemporary music. I've more to say and no time to say it
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I'm way, way behind on my blogging, again. I've got three Times reviews stacked up waiting to be archived here. But at the very least, I can endeavor to make time for the really big news: Alex Ross has started a new blog, Unquiet Thoughts, on the New Yorker web site. ("Joined the home team,"
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