Awl pal Alex Ross, who is almost certainly better known as the classical music critic of the New Yorker and the award-winning author of The Rest Is Noise: Listening To The Twentieth Century (which is AMAZING), has a new blog! Bookmark it or put it in your RSS reader or whatever you do with these things.
Friday, October 16, 2009
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Done and done. Alex is one of the best reasons to read the Awl / subscribe to the New Yorker.
Agreed. Love this guy.
Yeah. Please add tag "People we like".
Very cool.
Ross’s writing balances an expansive scope and critical responsibility like none other. It seems he is never prey to prejudice or unduly narrow personal taste.
It may be that his ear is sympathetic to all music. Or perhaps he is able to check his ego with strength proportionate to his intellectual and editorial prowess. But I like to think that what I sense in his writing is the goodness of a person-the goodness of one who cares about people and the music they make, who wants to understand others (his subjects as well as his audience), and who wants to share knowledge, beauty, and experience with the world.
No one else could do his job: he is a treasure.
I agree, he is wonderful.