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Listening to the Twentieth Century: Alex Ross in Conversation with Ramona Koval
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Alex Ross' The Rest is Noise, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, is a sweeping musical history that goes from the salons of pre-war Vienna to New York lofts of the sixties and seventies, by way of Stalin's Soviet Union, Hitler's Germany, and Cold War America. He speaks to Ramona Koval.

Supported by Macquarie Group.

In Conversation  |  Nonfiction, History, Music
Participants
Alex Ross, Ramona Koval (facilitator)

When
Thursday, May 21 2009
18:30 - 19:30

Where
Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay
22 Hickson Road
Walsh Bay
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Cost
$25/$20

Bookings
9250 1988
 Sydney Theatre Box Office

Schedule
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RAMONA KOVAL (INTERSTATE)
RAMONA KOVAL has a regular program, The Book Show, on ABC Radio National each weekday and on Sundays. She has also written several books including the novel Samovar and two Jewish cookbooks.

also appearing at...
74: Richard Holloway on ABC Radio National’s Book Show
149: Cees Nooteboom on ABC Radio National’s Book Show
247: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Conversation with Ramona Koval

ALEX ROSS (INTERNATIONAL)Ross, Alex by David Michalek

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.


 therestisnoise.com

also appearing at...
309: Classical Music in Popular Culture