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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: RE: So why do so many greatly successful contest winners end up forgotten and the musicians that posted by Analog Scott on November 17, 2014 at 16:25:23:
When I first started to enjoy classical music in the mid 1960s William Livingstone's "Guide to the Basic Repertoire" released by Hi-Fi/Stereo Review was a godsend. Not that he always had it right, but that his words seemed to ring true; and he sent me on quest after quest. He was a performance, albeit recorded performance only, critic. For close to a century people labeled as "Music Critics" are really for the most part only "Performance Critics". Real Music Critics, such as those of the late 19th Century, for example, who would regularly take a composer to task for what he had written, are essentially unheard of today. And I'm certain that contemporary classical music is still being written that may need that type of critique. It's possible that some new music may be of the "My Time Will Come" variety and needs to let the audience know that they may bring cabbage and tomatoes. I'm sure there were reviews of the orchestral performances Bruckner's and Mahler's almost universally panned symphonic output, but it the reviews of the music itself that are most remembered; and that sadly delayed their acceptance into the basic repertoire for so many years. Bring back the classical "music reviewer".
Gregory
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