Kanbar Hall, JCCSF
3200 California St
415.292.1200
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Alex Ross
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Thursday Oct 30, 2008 (8pm)
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$18
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New Yorker music critic Alex Ross grew up listening to traditional classical music like Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert; in college, however, the burgeoning music snob developed an ear for chaotic avant-garde, obscure free jazz, and even the "noisier end of rock," like indie ass-kickers Sonic Youth. In his long-awaited first book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century, Ross' democratic, all-inclusive love of the artform grounds 20th-century classical music in a wide political and cultural context that highlights its intersections with the pop, rock, and hip-hop realms. Tonight, the blog-happy, MacArthur "genius" discusses his book with San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joshua Kosman.
