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In Reply to: RE: But keep in mind ... posted by rbolaw on November 17, 2014 at 12:44:44
Thomson & Schonberg both knew what they were talking about when they wrote about music. My point was that being a good writer in and of itself itself doesn't qualify anyone to be critic of subjects they are not knowledgeable about.Whose review of a clarinet soloist's performance would you expect to be more informative, knowledgeable and helpful, Ricardo Morales's (who may not be much of a writer) or Harrison Salisbury's?
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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.
Didn't know Schonberg did that, but it wouldn't surprise me if someone like Nat Hentoff served as a judge for something like the Monk thing instead of an actual jazz musician.
Look for my review of a new yarn in Knitting Quartely.
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