Alex Ross: Wagner & Hollywood
UC Regents’ Lecturer at UCLA in the Department of Comparative Literature Alex Ross, the longtime music critic of The New Yorker, discusses his recently released third book, Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music. Ross’s first book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, won a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Guardian First Book Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Ross has received the George Peabody Medal, an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Belmont Prize in Germany, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship.
This event is co-presented by the Hammer Museum at UCLA and the UCLA Departments of Comparative Literature and Musicology.
Event Date: Thursday, Dec. 3, 5 p.m.
Platform: Zoom
Price: Free
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