Listening to the 20th Century: Alex Ross with Ramona Koval

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Alex Ross is an American music critic. He has been on the staff of The New Yorker magazine since 1996 and in 2007 he published the critically acclaimed book on 20th-century classical music, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century.

The Rest is Noise received widespread critical praise in the U.S was the winner of the Guardian First Book Award, garnered a spot on the New York Times list of the ten best books of 2007, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. It is a sweeping musical history that goes from the salons of pre-war Vienna to New York lofts of the sixties and seventies, by way of Stalin's Soviet Union, Hitler's Germany, and Cold War America. In this Sydney Writers' Festival session he speaks to Ramona Koval (ABC Radio National Book Show).

Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay, May 2009

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Sydney Writers' Festival

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