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01/15/2008
Alex Ross
A conversation with author Alex Ross
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A conversation with author & music critic Alex Ross about his book The Rest is Noise : Listening to the Twentieth Century, a cultural history of music since 1900.
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As a art-music lover and father of a 21st century young composer who followed Feldman, Cage and who is a disciple of Alvin Curran etc., I have been very excited and happy to know about your book. I have a copy of it now and I am sure it will help me a lot to bridge what I liked all my life and what I started to listen and tried to understand better in recent years because of my son's music. Thank you..
Thank you Charlie! Your programs are generally interesting to(except for the sports stuff) and this one was no exception. Alex Ross' interview was particulary interesting to those of us who read music and understand music theory. His characterization of jazz as being part of pop music was a curiosity to me. At this point in time, it is difficult for some of us to think of Thenonius Monk as a pop artist. I do however relate to his characterization of rock music as adolecent based, and not really the stuff of serious music persuit. Ross' ability to put things in historical order and provide overviews of thrends was good.
Alex Ross rocks my world! Seeing poor Charlie a bit awestruck/silenced was sort of fun as well. Hats off to the show for inviting Alex on in any case.
I am a die-hard Charlie Rose fan. Die-hard!....but I was sooo disappointed with the Alex Ross interview. I feel Ross deserved more informed questioning by Charlie. I was surprised and disheartened but alas I will be watching tonight.
I am a die-hard Charlie Rose fan. Die-hard!....but I was sooo disappointed with the Alex Ross interview. I feel Ross deserved more informed questioning by Charlie. I was surprised and disheartened but alas I will be watching tonight.
I was checking for airing time for the Charlie Rose program and discovered that my local PBS stations say that PBS has "retired" the Charlie Rose program. What TV channel/station will be carrying the program? Why was it retired?
To Mr. Rose and staff: About 1/2 hour ago I was on the internet, at that time I had not received the update stating who was going to be on the program tonight. I just came back on the internet and did my e-mail first, your update was there stating Tiki Barber was tonight's guest. Then I go on your home page and the program has been changed. This is not the first time and there have been times when I have not received the update. I know some people probablly check e-mails for the update, but I think they are unnecessary, when it is easier just to go to your home page. Just my opinion.
Charlie Rose may well be the best interviewer on television. I adore him and his programs, and his ability to constantly draw the important 'stuff' from his interviewees - an ability which no doubt springs from his astounding range of knowledge. As a devotee of classical music, however, I must say that he seemed out of his depth here. If the interview suffered, the blame falls on Rose - who ought to have read The Rest Is Noise before he dramatically proclaimed it one of the ten best of 2007 and instead of shuffling through it while his guest was speaking - not Ross, whose devotion to his subject and insightful scholarship bear on much deeper and more pressing questions than, "who are the five greatest conductors of the 20th century?"
Thoroughly enjoyed the January 15's The Charlie Rose Show on "Classical Music" with music critic Alex Ross, and especially appreciate the conversation with music director Marin Alsop of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - very enlightening in her points of view and her anecdote about 'condition'/mindset. Thank you - stayed up late to watch the repeat again on cable!
Excellent interview with the author of the best book on music in ages.