Alex Ross has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996. His first book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, published in 2007, won a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Guardian First Book Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
His third book, Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music, was published in 2020.
Ross has received the George Peabody Medal, an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship.
He has been invited to lecture and give talks at various universities, libraries and festivals including the Sydney Writers' Festival.
This will be followed by the Society AGM.
We will also present a screening of a Gala concert from 2014 with Dresden Staatskapelle and its conductor Christian Thielemann featuring highlights of operas by Richard Strauss. Herr Strauss was influenced by the work of Wagner.
It will include a documentary by Andreas Morell titled "Christian Thielemann - My Richard Strauss".
Alex Ross photo credit: Josh Goldstine.
