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Alex Ross (born 1968) is an American music critic. He has been on the staff of ''The New Yorker'' magazine since 1996. He also authored the books ''The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century'' (2007) and ''Listen to This'' (2011). ==Biography== Ross is a 1986 graduate of St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., and a 1990 graduate of Harvard University, where he studied under composer Peter Lieberson and was a DJ on the classical and underground rock departments of the college radio station, WHRB. He earned a Harvard A.B. in English ''summa cum laude'' for a thesis on James Joyce. From 1992 to 1996 Ross was a music critic at ''The New York Times''. He also wrote for ''The New Republic'', ''Slate'', the ''London Review of Books'', ''Lingua Franca'', ''Fanfare'' and ''Feed''. He first contributed to ''The New Yorker'' in 1993 and became a staff writer in 1996. His first book, ''The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century'', a cultural history of music since 1900, was released in the U.S. in 2007 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and in the U.K. in 2008. The book received widespread critical praise in the U.S., garnering a National Book Critics Circle Award, a spot on ''The New York Times'' list of the ten best books of 2007, and a finalist citation for the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. The book was also shortlisted for the 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction. His second book, ''Listen to This,'' was released in the U.S. in September 2010 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and was published in the U.K. in November 2010. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship, three ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards for music writing, and a Holtzbrinck fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. In 2012 he received the Belmont Prize for Contemporary Music at the pèlerinages Art Festival in Weimar. Alex Ross married〔The Canadian ''Civil Marriage Act 2005'' permits same-sex marriage.〕 director Jonathan Lisecki in Canada in 2006. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alex Ross (music critic)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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