Alex Ross: Listen to ThisAlex Ross has a new book coming out on September 28. Based on sixteen years of his writing for The New Yorker, it gives a "panoramic view of the musical world, from Bach to Björk and beyond." Listen to This includes the 2006 essay that Alex wrote about the crisis in music education in which he featured CMW as a "revolutionary organization in which the distinction between performing and teaching disappears." For Listen to This, Alex provides an online audio guide, arranged by chapter. There are some useful links regarding information about CMW, and you even listen to an excerpt of the final movement of the Brahms Piano Quintet in F Minor that the Providence String Quartet performed with Jonathan Biss during Alex's visit to Providence in November 2004. -Heath Marlow, CMW staff |
