What is the place for classical music in the age of YouTube and the MP3? Is it dying, or is it in the midst of a surprising revival? Alex Ross, the music critic of The New Yorker and the author of the award-winning book The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, gives a talk on the present state of an ever-evolving artform.
ROWENA DANZIGER AM (LOCAL) ROWENA DANZIGER AM was headmistress of Ascham School (1973-2003). She has been a Member of the Board of Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL) since 1997 and is a Director of Crown. She is currently Chairman of the Art Gallery Foundation, has been a Director of Opera Australia since 1989 and was Chairman of the Board from 2001-2003. She is a Director of the Board of Sydney Writers’ Festival.
ALEX ROSS has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996. From 1992 to 1996 he wrote for the New York Times. His first book, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, published in 2007, was awarded The Guardian First Book Award and was shortlisted for the Pulitzer and Samuel Johnson prizes. In 2008 he became a MacArthur Fellow. A native of Washington, DC, he now lives in Manhattan.
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