To keep the discussion appropriate, civil, and hopefully, meaningful or interesting. His first book The Rest is Noise is about the cultural history of music since 1990, which won the Guardian First Book Award. Your promise: To try and complete the book on schedule. Read, engage and banter with your fellow music lovers as you see fit. Post once a week in this thread about the readings and listenings from the week. Your commitment: Purchase or otherwise obtain access to a copy of “The Rest is Noise”.

Profiling Debussy and Schoenberg, two of the century’s earliest innovators, Ross traces. Further extracts are available as digital shorts, accompanying the London Southbank festival programme. The table of contents is available to view here. This is a chapter from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, ‘The Rest is Noise’. What this book isn’t: an in-depth dive into the obscure, the bleeding edge, or the esoteric. What this book is: an overview of many types of music, mostly from the “classical” genres. Reviews ‘Alex Ross's incredibly nourishing book will rekindle anyone's fire for music. We will start June 1st, and average 10 pages a day to finish in August with a new appreciation and understanding for many kinds of music. Alex Ross is the New Yorker’s music critic, and the winner of the Guardian First Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Rest is Noise, which was also shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson and Pulitzer prizes for non-fiction. We will work as a group through the book “The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century”. LR: As my journey of system building comes (hopefully) to a state of stability, I have been struggling with the idea of how to give back to the forum that was so helpful to me. TLDR: Join a group of your fellow music enthusiasts as we read “ The Rest is Noise” by Alex Ross, listen to the works from the book and discuss our findings with each other.

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