Alex Ross bibliography

A list of the published works of music critic Alex Ross.

Books

• Ross, Alex (2007). The rest is noise : listening to the Twentieth Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 
• — (2010). Listen to this. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 

Essays and reporting

2010–2014

• Ross, Alex (March 15, 2010). "Baritone poem". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 86 (4): 15.  Baritone Gerald Finley.
• — (March 29, 2010). "House of style". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 86 (6): 90–92.  Peter Gelb and the 2010/11 season at the Metropolitan Opera.
• — (November 15, 2010). "Disquiet". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 86 (36): 92–93.  New York City Opera's production of Leonard Bernstein's opera A Quiet Place.
• — (March 14, 2011). "Admirable Nelsons". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 87 (4): 10.  Andris Nelsons.
• — (March 14, 2011). "Reverberations". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 87 (4): 74–75.  John Adams' Nixon in China; eighth blackbird's Tune-In Festival; John Luther Adams' Inuksuit.
• — (November 14, 2011). "Third-base blues". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 87 (36): 14.  The Metropolitan Opera production of Siegfried at the Met.
• — (November 14, 2011). "Heart to heart". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 87 (36): 86–87.  The Lincoln Center's White Light Festival.
• — (December 19–26, 2011). "Prince of Darkness". A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. 87 (41): 84–92.  On Carlo Gesualdo.
• — (February 13–20, 2012). "Number Nine". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 88 (1): 116–117.  Philip Glass.
• — (April 16, 2012). "Joyful noise : Michael Tilson Thomas's "American Mavericks" festival". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 88 (9): 104–106. 
• — (November 19, 2012). "Royal Command". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 88 (36): 20.  Joyce DiDonato's "Drama Queens" at Carnegie Hall.
• — (November 19, 2012). "Primal Scream". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 88 (36): 92-93.  100 years of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
• — (December 3, 2012). "Retaking the stage : The Tempest and Un Ballo in Maschera at the Met". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 88 (38): 110–111. 
• — (January 28, 2013). "After Chopin". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 88 (45): 13.  Witold Lutosławski.
• — (February 4, 2013). "The power of four : string quartets multiply across New York". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 88 (46): 76–77. 
• — (March 4, 2013). "Good knight". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 89 (3): 14. 
• — (March 4, 2013). "Border crossings : East meets West at Carnegie Hall". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 89 (3): 78–79.  West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and the Afghanistan National Institute of Music.
• — (March 25, 2013). "Illuminated : George Benjamin's long-awaited masterpiece". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 89 (6): 104–105.  Written on Skin.
• — (April 8, 2013). "Shock tactics : smaller opera companies break the routine". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 89 (8): 84–85. 
• — (April 15, 2013). "Singing shadows : early music finds new life downtown". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 89 (9): 82–83. 
• — (April 29, 2013). "Spring kings". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 89 (11): 6. 
• — (April 29, 2013). "Even the score : female composers edge forward". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 89 (11): 78–79. 
• — (March 24, 2014). "The Vienna fixation : the 'City of Dreams' festival, at Carnegie Hall". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 90 (5): 94–95. 
• — (June 2, 2014). "Notes of dissent : in Hungary, Iván Fischer is shaking up music and politics". Letter from Budapest. The New Yorker. 90 (15): 36–41. 
• — (October 20, 2014). "Deus ex machina : Beethoven transformed music – but has veneration of him stifled his successors?". Onward and Upward with the Arts. The New Yorker. 90 (32): 44–49. 
• — (October 20, 2014). "Sound and fury : "Macbeth" at the Met, and Carl Nielsen at the Philharmonic". The Critics. Musical Events. The New Yorker. 90 (32): 104–105. 

2015–

• Ross, Alex (April 13, 2015). "The quiet man : the soft tones of the viol speak volumes at Carnegie Hall". Goings on About Town. Classical Music. The New Yorker. 91 (8): 8.  Jordi Savall.
• — (February 29, 2016). "Fish out of water". The Talk of the Town. The Pictures. The New Yorker. 92 (3): 18–19.  David Lang.