![]() ![]() ![]() Ross, as you may or may not know, is the classical music critic of the New Yorker. Everybody felt they were singing the same exciting song.Īll right, so much for the clever opening. Before the centrifugal force of the mass media flung music into a thousand silos and opinions, good rock writers managed to unite artist and reader in the heart of a shared culture. Ross reminds me of the early days of Rolling Stone and Creem, when journalists stretched themselves and their vocabularies to express the music from the inside. His critical insights flow out of a deep respect for artists, and his judgments depend on the emotional and intellectual success of their designs. He tells great stories about musicians' lives and illuminates their work with the light of his own experiences. He writes about music in vivid language humming with intelligence. ![]()
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