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Reading list The shock of the new: how classical music turned atonal

Guardian member John Keenan reviews The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross, a study of how classical music reflected the 20th century’s cultural and political upheavals

Published: 20 May 2016

Books blog Saying goodbye to the Guardian first book award

After 17 years of hunting the best new writing, of terrific winners and terrific rows, we’re saying goodbye to the prize. It will leave lots of great memories – please share yours

Published: 7 Apr 2016

How Björk broke the sound barrier

Ahead of a major retrospective at MoMA, New York, acclaimed music writer Alex Ross traces Björk’s musical journey

Published: 14 Feb 2015

The Rest Is Noise festival The Rest is Noise festival: Berlin, Kurt Weill and The Threepenny Opera - video preview

The Rest is Noise book author Alex Ross, London Philharmonic Orchestra's principal conductor Vladimir Jurowski and singer Meow Meow discuss Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera

6:06

Published: 28 Feb 2013
The Rest Is Noise festival The Rest is Noise festival: Alex Ross in conversation - video interview

As London's Southbank continues its festival of 20th century music based on the book The Rest is Noise, author Alex Ross talks to Alan Rusbridger

13:59

Published: 13 Feb 2013

USB Soundscapes: Eclectica – John Adams; The Rest is Noise: LPO/ Jurowski; Britten Sinfonia – review

John Adams conducts his own Shaker Loops, and the Britten Sinfonia and Mark Padmore have a power lunch, writes Fiona Maddocks

Published: 26 Jan 2013
The Rest Is Noise festival LPO/Jurowski – review
4 out of 5 stars.

Published: 20 Jan 2013
The Rest Is Noise festival The Rest Is Noise festival: 1900-1910

Gallery

Published: 18 Jan 2013

The Rest Is Noise festival The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music?

In anticipation of the Southbank Centre's year-long The Rest is Noise festival, conductors, musicians and artists share their favourite classical works from a century of musical turbulence

Published: 29 Nov 2012
The Rest Is Noise festival In praise of … The Rest Is Noise

Editorial: Alex Ross's book shows that the culture of the 20th century cannot be neatly divided into high- and lowbrow

Published: 28 Nov 2012

Audiences flock to 'difficult' contemporary classical music

The Southbank, Barbican, ENO and BBC4 are catering for the new-found appetite for sonic adventure

Published: 30 Jan 2012
The Rest is Noise: Southbank festival to celebrate contemporary classical music

London's Southbank Centre to host year-long festival inspired by Alex Ross's study of 20th-century classical music

Published: 23 Jan 2012

Readers' reviews Readers' reviews

The best of your comments on the latest films and music

Published: 8 Dec 2011

Paul Morley's showing off ... Classical music critic Alex Ross talks to Paul Morley

Alex Ross, the acclaimed New Yorker music critic and author of The Rest Is Noise, discusses the strange landscape where pop meets classical music with Paul Morley

16:54

Published: 11 Dec 2010
Paul Morley's showing off ... ... Alex Ross

Published: 11 Dec 2010
Book of the week Listen to This by Alex Ross – review

Published: 10 Dec 2010

Tom Service on classical music Get with the contemporary classical programme? We already have

Tom Service: Alex Ross makes a valid point about many concertgoers' dislike of new music, but British audiences are ahead of the game. If only we could speed up the process

Published: 29 Nov 2010
Why do we hate modern classical music?

Avant garde art and architecture are loved, but in music we cling to the past. We're missing out, says Alex Ross

Published: 28 Nov 2010

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