Spencer Trask Lectures: Alex Ross

Alex Ross has been the music critic for The New Yorker since 1996. He has written extensively on classical music, including performance and recording reviews and historical and cultural commentary. He is the author of three books, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century (2007); Listen to This (2011); and Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music (2020).  Among his many awards and accolades, Alex Ross has received a MacArthur Fellowship (2008), the Belmont Prize (2012) and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2007).