Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, will visit the University of Nebraska on September 8, 2016 at 3:30 p.m. at the Center for Great Plains Studies.
His lecture, "The Schindelmeisser Factor," will explore Willa Cather's first encounter with Wagner and Wagnerism in Nebraska. Ross wrote that Wagner "fired the imaginations" of numerous artists, including Cather.
Ross is "one of the most consistently engaging, erudite and readable critics in the country right now," according to Indyweek.com.
A reception and book signing will follow the lecture.
Alex Ross’s first book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, won a National Book Critics Circle Award, The Guardian First Book Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His second book is the essay collection Listen to This. He is now at work on Wagnerism: Art in the Shadow of Music. Ross has received 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.
