Friends on the East Coast tell me that the Pope was pretty busy this past week and so no word yet if Benny's been checking out our podcasts.
But we've done one better with a lovely shout-out from the music world's Master Weblogger Alex Ross (left), music critic of The New Yorker, author of the acclaimed The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (FSG, 2007) -- winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism and a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction -- and the proprietor of the gold standard in the arts and music weblog business, www.therestisnoise.com.
Alex and I might not agree about a lot regarding Pierre Boulez, but we see ear to ear when it comes to listening to the way the Great Man talks!
Alex's "Bløgösphèric notes" item today also calls attention to our friend and colleague Russell Platt's excellent posts on the Goings On weblog of The New Yorker. In addition to being on the staff at the magazine, Russell is a critic and a composer and the twin brother of peripatetic conductor Alexander Platt.
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