Allow me to express my immense gratitude to Alex Ross.
If you are coming to the blog from the print edition, the posts he mentions are
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Please feel free to browse the archives or use the slider, above… (“Older”) to dip at random into the past. I get scared when I do this. Sometimes it feels like some other Jeremy Denk wrote all that stuff.
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Nice! Never hurts to be favorably mentioned in the New Yorker. Alex’s praise for Think Denk takes on a whole new level of significance/relevance after hearing him speak at Cal Berkeley tonight. He focused mainly on the last few chapters from his new book (now first in my exhaustive reading list queue). Ironically, Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” must’ve come up at least 2-3 times.
Amazing. Jeremy is the one that deserves the thanks!
(and Alex Ross, of course: thank you for telling us about this fabulous blog.)
Playing the Berg Kammerkonzert in the UK anytime soon?
yes. I’m directed by the New Yorker too. Ordered Ross’ book yesterday online. Can’t wait.
yes! alex ross’s article brought me here as well.
very excited to read more of your posts.
love the tone of your writing.
passionate, detailed, but also conversational.
i think i’ll have to make a new category of blog links just so that we can effectively include yours on our site!
I was lured here by Ross, as well. I feel quite at home in your musings and am passing your link on and on and on and…