Tonight from 11 p.m. to 12 midnight CST on 98.7WFMT Radio Chicago and via free streaming anywhere in the world at wfmt.com -- an hour later than usual due to the live broadcast of Lyric Opera of Chicago's new production of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
My guest is New Yorker music critic, award-winning and best-selling author of The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, MacArthur Fellow, and music weblog pioneer with therestisnoise.com, Mr. Alex Ross, discussing his new book of essays and profiles, Listen To This.
From bass lines to Björk, Marian Anderson to Radiohead, Bob Dylan to Brahms, Alex brings together topics from his acclaimed New Yorker pieces, mixes in a new essay and lots of great notes and references, and places them elegantly between two hard covers. We talk about them and even play some music.
Our radio broadcast will then be posted later this week at wfmt.com/criticalthinking for free podcast/download/streaming.
See you on the radio!
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