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The bigger the lie, the easier it is to propogate

Posted by Bambi B (A) on March 4, 2007 at 08:15:48

In Reply to: Great points, but... posted by SE on March 4, 2007 at 06:15:16:

SE,

When I wrote "I certainly would have been suspicious", I AM suggesting mistakes were made in the critical world. I had a radio programme on Los Angeles FM for six years epecifically devoted to classical keyboard and I was responsible for content and commentary, making me a demi-critic. If any pianist released over 100 CD's in two or three years and everyone was praising them to the heavens- I know I would have questioned the phenomenon- just as you say you would. When Lang Lang became an overnight sensation, I certainly looked behind that hollow shell.

And while the critical community seems proto-idiotic in not realising what was going on, it is also difficult to recognise every pianist by their playing style- could you separate Ashkenazy from Perhia, Schiff from Hewitt, Arrau from Backhaus? One element of this fraud that's interesting is that it may have succeeded because it was unprecedented in scale- so large and blatant, no one thought to question the most fundamental aspect- who was really playing- everyone took B-C at his word and focussed on the details of the playing.

It seems like the bigger the lie, the easier it is to propogate. So, I understand this kind of critical slip happening- for awhile. But, not for as long as occurred. I agree with you, ",..it's surprising that more attention wasn't cast upon the phenomenon sooner".

I'm not sure I understand who you mean who are "in the business of fast and loose facts", unless you mean Fox News, because critics should be- and often are- as careful as any journalist in striving for accuracy. No one questions success like critics. The Hatto incident is a call to renew that striving in the critical world.

Cheers,

Bambi B

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