2008 MacArthur “Genius” Grants Awarded

in Music, Video - Arts & Culture | September 23rd, 2008 Leave a Comment

The 2008 MacArthurs were just announced. And one goes to Alex Ross, the New York­er music crit­ic who recent­ly pub­lished The Rest is Noise, a wide­ly praised work that makes sense of 20th cen­tu­ry clas­si­cal music. Below we have Ross talk­ing about his musi­cal back­ground, the New York music scene and the gen­er­al gist of his book.

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