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The state of classical music criticism

submitted by Max Sparber

Nov 12 2008 — 2:00am

David Hawley worries that, thanks to a lack of concern for culture by the people who own and run newspapers, classical music criticism might go the way of the dodo.

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3 Reader Comments

jane Nov 12 2008
1:19 pm

I can see why she’d be worried. I read the classical reviews in the PiPress and Strib if I remember, which unfortunately isn’t all that often. The New Yorker sometimes has some good articles on classical music, or, more often, dance and theatre.

Oh, and “First!”

And probably last.

:)

jane Nov 12 2008
9:06 pm

Heh. Told you I’d be last.

acalhoun Nov 12 2008
9:47 pm

Why the need to criticize? Why can’t we let those folks thrive?

Do music critics ever have an impact on the music about which they write?