New Yorker Critic Alex Ross Visits CCM

The New Yorker's

Alex Ross

visits The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Friday, May 5 at 2 p.m.

for the ongoing Thinking About Music Lecture Series. Ross's discussion, "Inside Notes on Music Criticism: History and Current Practice," will draw from his ten-plus years of covering classical music and music trends for the highly respected magazine.

A staff writer with The New Yorker since 1996, Ross's work has also appeared in The New Republic, The London Review of Books, Transition, Spin, Lingua Franca, and Feed. From 1992 to 1996 he was a critic at The New York Times and his writing has been featured in Best American Essays, Da Capo Best Music Writing and Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader. He has received two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards for music criticism, a Holtzbrinck fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin, and a Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center for significant contributions to the field of contemporary music. His blog, which includes links to his New Yorker articles, can be viewed at www.therestisnoise.com.

His first book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, a cultural history of music since 1900, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

CCM's Thinking About Music lecture series features diverse topics presented by distinguished professors from all over the United States. This intellectually stimulating, musically enlightening lecture series takes place in the Baur Room at the CCM Village on the UC campus. All events are free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.ccm.uc.edu.

"Thinking About Music" enjoys the generous support of the Office of Dean Douglas Lowry, the CCM Graduate Student Association and the Division of Composition. Musicology and Theory.