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Music critic of The New Yorker, author of The Rest Is Noise, Listen to This, and Wagnerism. Blog: www.therestisnoise.com

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Sublime Fury at the Ojai Festival

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By Alex Ross
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Nostalgia isn’t an Ojai virtue, however, and younger composers kept things current. Messiaen’s nature-consciousness found a counterpart in Gabriella Smith’s “Anthozoa,” for violin, cello, piano, and percussion, which evoked the microscopic bustle of coral reefs, with clicks and rustlings giving way to oceanic hymnal chords. Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s “Ró” (“tranquillity,” in Icelandic) unfurled a not dissimilar soundscape of organic tendrils growing from sustained drones.
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Gustavo Dudamel and James Conlon Bid L.A. Goodbye

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By Alex Ross
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When Dudamel was announced as Salonen’s successor at the L.A. Phil, in 2007, he was only twenty-six, and aglow with a celebrity that is bestowed on just a handful of classical musicians. I spoke to him on the day of the announcement and got the sense that he knew how much work lay in front of him.
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Jürgen Habermas Defended Reason in a Darkening Age

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By Alex Ross
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The Institute for Social Research was formed in 1923, under the auspices of Goethe University, in Frankfurt. Early meetings occurred at the Senckenberg Natural History Museum, beneath a diplodocus skeleton and other prehistoric relics. At first, the institute concentrated on earnest Marxian research projects. Then, in 1930, Horkheimer, a brilliant, turbulent man with a melancholic streak, became director and instilled a more intransigent perspective.
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