Music History, Western Classical Music History, Alex Ross

Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues. This essay is Alex Ross's own chaconne, one that only he could have written - a display of lateral thinking as virtuosic, in its own way. It alone is worth the... — Sunday TelegraphMore…

The Rest is Noise" achieves the aim with bravura, hacking out a path leading from cacophonous European modernism to the white noise of The Velvet Underground — Financial TimesMore…