Alex Ross bibliography

A list of the published works of music critic Alex Ross. See also listing at the New Yorker's web page.

Books

• The rest is noise : listening to the Twentieth Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2007.
• Listen to this. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2010.
• Wagnerism. Forthcoming.

Essays and reporting

1993–2009

• "Grand seductions". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 69 (8): 115–120. April 12, 1993.
• "Generation Exit". Postscript. The New Yorker. April 25, 1994. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Mahlermania". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. September 4, 1995. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Mann in Love". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. March 11, 1996. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "The shock of the true". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. August 19, 1996. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "The musical kaleidoscope". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. August 26, 1996. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "The battle of Britten". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. December 16, 1996. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Great soul". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. February 3, 1997. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Native sons". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. February 17, 1997. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Beautiful nightmare". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. March 10, 1997. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)

2010–2014

• "Baritone poem". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 86 (4): 15. March 15, 2010. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "House of style". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 86 (6): 90–92. March 29, 2010. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Sweet noises". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 86 (9). April 19, 2010. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Disquiet". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 86 (36): 92–93. November 15, 2010. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Admirable Nelsons". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 87 (4): 10. March 14, 2011. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Reverberations". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 87 (4): 74–75. March 14, 2011. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Third-base blues". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 87 (36): 14. November 14, 2011.
• "Heart to heart". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 87 (36): 86–87. November 14, 2011.
• "Prince of darkness". A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 87 (41): 84–92. December 19–26, 2011.
• "Number Nine". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 88 (1): 116–117. February 13–20, 2012. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Joyful noise : Michael Tilson Thomas's "American Mavericks" festival". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 88 (9): 104–106. April 16, 2012. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Royal command". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 88 (36): 20. November 19, 2012. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Primal scream". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 88 (36): 92–93. November 19, 2012. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Retaking the stage : The Tempest and Un Ballo in Maschera at the Met". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 88 (38): 110–111. December 3, 2012. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "After Chopin". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 88 (45): 13. January 28, 2013. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "The power of four : string quartets multiply across New York". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 88 (46): 76–77. February 4, 2013. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Good knight". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 89 (3): 14. March 4, 2013. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Border crossings : East meets West at Carnegie Hall". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 89 (3): 78–79. March 4, 2013. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Illuminated : George Benjamin's long-awaited masterpiece". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 89 (6): 104–105. March 25, 2013. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Shock tactics : smaller opera companies break the routine". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 89 (8): 84–85. April 8, 2013. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Singing shadows : early music finds new life downtown". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 89 (9): 82–83. April 15, 2013. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Spring kings". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 89 (11): 6. April 29, 2013. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Even the score : female composers edge forward". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 89 (11): 78–79. April 29, 2013. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Return engagement : James Levine resumes conducting". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 89 (17): 100–102. June 10–17, 2013. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Capricious Bach". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 89 (19): 13. July 1, 2013. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Water music : John Luther Admas's "Become Ocean," at the Seattle Symphony". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 89 (20): 92–93. July 8–15, 2013. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Back to the future : Gotham Chamber Opera offers four mini-operas from 1927". Goings on About Town. Classical Music. The New Yorker. 89 (34): 16. October 28, 2013. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Imperious : the problem with Valery Gergiev". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 89 (35): 112–113. November 4, 2013. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Finales : the Minnesota Orchestra cancels, and Hilary Hahn stages a festival". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 89 (38): 132–133. November 25, 2013. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Holy fool : 'Falstaff' at the Met". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 89 (43): 68–69. January 6, 2014. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "The opera lab : the Prototype Festival rethinks a venerable genre". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 89 (47): 80–81. February 3, 2014. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Weather man : a percussion virtuoso patrols the outer reaches of sound". Goings on About Town. Classical Music. The New Yorker. 89 (47): 9. February 3, 2014. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help) Steven Schick.
• "Drowned sounds : Pawel Szymanski's opera 'Qudsja Zaber', in Warsaw". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 90 (2): 76–77. March 3, 2014. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "The Vienna fixation : the 'City of Dreams' festival, at Carnegie Hall". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 90 (5): 94–95. March 24, 2014. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Séance : the pianist Igor Levit plays late Beethoven". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 90 (8): 84–85. April 14, 2014. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Notes of dissent : in Hungary, Iván Fischer is shaking up music and politics". Letter from Budapest. The New Yorker. 90 (15): 36–41. June 2, 2014. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Under the stars : the Hollywood Bowl gets a digital upgrade". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 90 (24): 70–71. August 25, 2014. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Deus ex machina : Beethoven transformed music – but has veneration of him stifled his successors?". Onward and Upward with the Arts. The New Yorker. 90 (32): 44–49. October 20, 2014. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Sound and fury : "Macbeth" at the Met, and Carl Nielsen at the Philharmonic". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 90 (32): 104–105. October 20, 2014. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Wall of sound : a resurgence of organ music in the concert hall". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 90 (40): 66–68. December 15, 2014. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)

2015–2019

• "Sound and silence : Juilliard's 'Focus!' concerts celebrate modern Japanese composers". The New Yorker. 90 (46): 8. February 2, 2015. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Eyes and ears : at the Metropolitan Museum, early music in the galleries". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 90 (47): 74–75. February 9, 2015. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Dance of death : Thomas Adès's latest work is a meditation on an ancient theme". Goings on About Town. Classical Music. The New Yorker. 91 (4): 15. March 16, 2015. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "The quiet man : the soft tones of the viol speak volumes at Carnegie Hall". Goings on About Town. Classical Music. The New Yorker. 91 (8): 8. April 13, 2015. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help) Jordi Savall.
• "Surround sound : the new Philharmonie de Paris combines sing-alongs and symphonies". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 91 (9): 94–95. April 20, 2015. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Fish out of water". The Talk of the Town. The Pictures. The New Yorker. 92 (3): 18–19. February 29, 2016. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help) David Lang.
• "A sudden shadow : the Met highlights the darkness in Rossini's William Tell". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 92 (36): 76–77. November 7, 2016. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Holy dread : Bach has long been seen as a symbol of divine order. But his music has an unruly obsession with God". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 92 (43): 66–73. January 2, 2017. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Nordic fire : the Los Angeles Philharmonic celebrates the music of Iceland". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 93 (11): 78–79. May 1, 2017. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Departures and arrivals : end-of-season changes at the Met and the New York Philharmonic". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 93 (19): 72–73. July 3, 2017. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Power play : fresh provocations at the Salzburg Festival". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 93 (24): 80–81. August 21, 2017. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Tremors : the deep sounds of Ashley Fure's 'The Force of Things'". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 93 (34): 74–75. October 30, 2017. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Hero worship : Leonard Bernstein's centenary". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 94 (28): 68–69. September 17, 2018. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Culture by the Yards : the Shed, a West Side venue devoted to new work, opens". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 95 (14): 74–75. May 27, 2019. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Salieri's revenge". Onward and Upward with the Arts. The New Yorker. 95 (15): 26–31. June 3, 2019. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Sorrowful songs : Julia Bullock and Christoan Gerhaher bring fresh approaches to classic lieder". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 95 (36): 78–79. November 18, 2019. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)

2020–

• "Queens of the night". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 95 (43): 64–65. January 6, 2020. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• "Mind storms : 'Wozzeck' and 'The Queen of Spades' at the Met". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 95 (44): 70–71. January 13, 2020. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)