In Reply to: I guess I'm just lucky... posted by Ivan303 on May 13, 2017 at 12:25:56:
Maybe critics are becoming less and less necessary - why rely on what the critic thinks when you can listen and decide for yourself in ways that were undreamed of not so long ago. Then again, maybe critics were never really necessary! ;-)
OTOH, perhaps Virgil Thomson was right - music criticism is a literary endeaver, rather than a musical one. ;-)
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- Actually, that's an interesting point with so many recordings available via streaming these days - Chris from Lafayette 18:10:34 05/13/17 (2)
- And thanks to the internet... - Ivan303 07:23:30 05/14/17 (1)
- A dubious advantage! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 09:17:51 05/14/17 (0)