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YOU CAN’T PLEASE EVERYONE

I’VE BEEN ENJOYING Nick Slonimsky’s Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven’s Time. Its theses are two-fold and clear: You can’t please everyone. And critics write for … Continue reading →

August 29, 2020 · Leave a comment

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