Alex Ross
And the world was calmStray notes by Alex Ross, staff writer for The New Yorker, author of The Rest Is Noise, Listen to This, and Wagnerism.
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April 2026: Belated discoveries
Last month, around the time of my elegiac visit to the Kennedy Center, I returned to the Manuscript Reading Room at the Library of Congress to have another look at the Arthur Family Papers—an uncommonly fascinating trove of materials relati...
March 2026 addendum
The minatory view from the Kennedy Center terrace, March 11.
Last week on the New Yorker website, I published an “Elegy for the Kennedy Center,” bidding temporary—permanent?—farewell to the place where I had many pivotal musical experience...
March 2026: Tales of exile
The opening sentence of my recent column about New York Festival of Song—”When is it time to flee an incipient police state and go into exile?”—is not entirely theoretical. I had never remotely imagined leaving my country until Trump was re...
February 2026: Feldman time
I first fell under Morton Feldman’s glacial spell in the late 1980s, when I was hosting a college-radio show called Music Since 1900. In 1989 I presented a four-hour Feldman tribute, in the course of which I praised the composer for “skirti...
January 2026: Annals of gay chaos
At this stage of my curiously long career—I am somehow entering my thirtieth year as the New Yorker’s music critic—I enjoy nothing more than digging into archives and uncovering past lives. The vast majority of what I’ve written over the de...
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