Alex Does Google

For those of you who, like us, have never had the chance to attend a talk by author and New Yorker classical music critic Alex Ross, there’s this video from Google documenting a 60-minute talk Alex gave at Google HQ this month as part of its Authors@Google series in connection with the release of his new book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century. Alex is as eloquent, erudite, charming, and informative at the lectern as he is on the page, and anyone interested in or curious about classical music and, in particular, the classical music of the 20th century owes himself an audit of this video.

(Our thanks to Lisa Hirsch of Iron Tongue of Midnight for the link.)