Alex Ross Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Music critic of The New Yorker, author of The Rest Is Noise, Listen to This, and Wagnerism. Blog: https://t.co/53IGcSxP49
Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man
Thomas MannAlex Ross"A more intimate and more misusable diary has never been kept," Mann said of his right-wing screed Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man. A reissue from New York Review Books, with a tendentious preface by Mark Lilla, shows how problematic the book remains. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/24/thomas-manns-brush-with-darkness
Paperback, 2021
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Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
Alex RossAlex RossRT @POWERHOUSEArena: TOMORROW at 7pm! Don't miss the Virtual Book Launch of WAGNERISM by @alexrossmusic. RSVP here to attend the Zoom: http…
Paperback, 2021
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Death in Venice
Thomas MannAlex RossA clipping about cholera in Italy, also found in Mann's working materials for "Death in Venice." This concludes A Very Thomas Mann Christmas. https://t.co/zp3MCZmt91
Paperback, 1999
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Opera After the Zero Hour: The Problem of Tradition and the Possibility of Renewal in Postwar West Germany
Emily Richmond PollockAlex RossOn the @NewYorker website, a fascinating @IChotiner conversation with musicologists @Kira_Thurman (Singing Like Germans) and Emily Richmond Pollock (Opera after the Zero Hour). https://t.co/QYNHqJcy60
Hardcover, 2019
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Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms
Kira ThurmanAlex RossOn the @NewYorker website, a fascinating @IChotiner conversation with musicologists @Kira_Thurman (Singing Like Germans) and Emily Richmond Pollock (Opera after the Zero Hour). https://t.co/QYNHqJcy60
Paperback, 2023
$23.95$11.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book