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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Bad examples. posted by Rick W on November 17, 2014 at 13:09:48:
I'm not sure where or if we disagree. In writing that line, Virgil Thomson was being appropriately modest, essentially saying his role as a reviewer was as a writer, i.e., to inform (and maybe also to entertain, as Chris from Lafayette suggests) but not to dictate tastes.
In his actual conduct, there are those who would accuse Thomson of not practicing what he preached in that statement, but it's a worthy sentiment.
Obviously, Ricardo Morales would know vastly more about the clarinet than Harrison Salisbury (?!) And note that I said Harold Schonberg, though a fine critic and writer, and an enthusiastic amateur pianist, went too far in serving on piano competition juries.
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- Hah! Good examples. - rbolaw 13:28:11 11/17/14 (1)
- RE: Hah! Good examples. - Rick W 13:51:40 11/17/14 (0)
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