The Christian Science Monitor, October 23rd, 2007
Byline: Susan Miron
Readers of The New Yorker are already familiar with music critic Alex Ross's insightful writing and his ability to bring sounds and styles alive through erudite yet passionate consideration.
The Rest Is Noise, his long-awaited tome on 20th-century music, is, not surprisingly, a brilliant, hugely enjoyable, cultural history viewed - and heard - through, as he puts it, "the chaotic beauty" of music from this past chaotic century.
Ross's title plays off Hamlet's last words, "the rest is silence." Twentieth-century classical music - "an untamed art, an unassimilated underg...
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