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By: Emotional Anatomies • VAN Magazine

Emotional Anatomies • VAN Magazine — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 07:47:13 +0000

[…] the same emotional core, so specific that it becomes universal. It’s not too far off from what Alex Ross describes as Wagner’s ability to create “ambiguity and certitude in equal measure. Whatever is […]

By: The Death and Life of Spectral Music • VAN Magazine

The Death and Life of Spectral Music • VAN Magazine — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 08:05:09 +0000

[…] me a guided tour. Two recent surveys of the new music landscape, by Justin Davidson in Vulture and Alex Ross in the New Yorker, make no mention of the spectralists. The music seems to have lost its place in […]

By: Timelapse • VAN Magazine

Timelapse • VAN Magazine — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 16:43:25 +0000

[…] to make decisions about who gets included or left out, and invariably you will leave people out. Alex Ross eloquently acknowledges that. She was just such an important influence to me that I was […]

By: Broken Heartbeat • VAN Magazine

Broken Heartbeat • VAN Magazine — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 16:41:55 +0000

[…] Alex Ross, reviewing the premiere of “Written On Skin,” in a staging by Katie Mitchell, wrote, “Future stagings, and they will come, should seek a more fluid response to the opera’s tricky temporal structure.” Davis’ semi-staged version has hit on something promising here. Seeing the Protector raging in front of an entire orchestra may be the trick to giving us the fear of him we need. […]

By: 19 COVID Theses • VAN Magazine

19 COVID Theses • VAN Magazine — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 16:41:33 +0000

[…] to their father by Lear’s daughters were less impactful when marred by buffering problems. As Alex Ross wrote in The New Yorker recently, “Audience-free concerts streamed on the Internet…cannot […]

By: Silence, Breaking • VAN Magazine

Silence, Breaking • VAN Magazine — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 16:33:10 +0000

[…] 2001, in the New Yorker, Alex Ross reviewed a book by Johanna Fiedler about the Met. In the book, Fiedler dismissed the industry […]

By: Mythology Of Our Time • VAN Magazine

Mythology Of Our Time • VAN Magazine — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 16:31:08 +0000

[…] Until recently, the tenor of the conversation was vigorous and even harsh, but professional: As Alex Ross has written, the opera “inspired a meaty debate in critical and scholarly […]

By: Critic Bashing • VAN Magazine

Critic Bashing • VAN Magazine — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 16:29:22 +0000

[…] Alex Ross, in a memorable turn of phrase, wrote that the critic’s job is “to stand in a public space and say, ‘Not quite.’” That may be “irritating” to musicians, as he writes, but it is also certainly “somehow necessary,” despite any review’s subjectivity, as a handbrake for marketing hype. After two years at VAN it seems that musicians are less convinced of this necessity than they used to be. Increasingly, they are using their platforms to hit back at bad reviews and the music press in general. Has the prevalent mistrust of the media in 2017 made its way into our cozy classical music world? […]

By: Changing The System • VAN Magazine

Changing The System • VAN Magazine — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 16:24:14 +0000

[…] an article for a Dartmouth celebration, Alex Ross called you a kind of “hyper-radicalized […]

By: The Ecstasy of Knowledge - VAN Magazine

The Ecstasy of Knowledge - VAN Magazine — Mon, 03 May 2021 11:02:06 +0000

[…] history of the cult of fandom devoted to the operas of 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner, Alex Ross drops a charming anecdote from the 1850s. Poet and critic Auguste de Gasperini told of being […]