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22 Sept 2020 Conversations with Tyler Alex Ross on Music, Culture, and Criticism
“When that opportunity came my way, I was reluctant to do it. And Leon talked me into moving to New York and taking the job, so he had a huge effect on my early career, but what he saw in this 23-year-old kid, [laughs] I don’t know.”
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- Alex Ross
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- 22 Sept 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…How did Leon Wieseltier discover you as a potential music critic? What is it you think he saw in you? He read my Fanfare reviews, some of my Fanfare reviews and not much else. I forget what I originally sent him to look at. But he absolutely started my journalistic career. He gave me my first journalistic assignment, and then it was through him that the New York Times became interested in hiring me as their fifth-string critic. When that opportunity came my way, I was reluctant to do it. And Leon talked me into moving to New York and taking the job, so he had a huge effect on my early career, but what he saw in this 23-year-old kid, [laughs] I don’t know. You’d have to ask him. If someone wants to be “the next Alex Ross,” what else do they need to know besides music? If one looks at your writings, you could write about minor works by Heinrich Mann, much less Thomas Mann, without too much effort. Is that important to you, being the music critic that you are? Or is that kind of accident?…
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