Alex Renwick ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>My big beef with music critics [of live concerts I've attended] is
>that they concentrate most of their reviews on one item on the programme,
>usually the visiting soloist, if there is one.  If a critic is going to
>criticize, I wish he would give reasonably balanced criticisms of all the
>pieces on one programme.

Easier said than done.  It's bad enough when there are 3 pieces, but when
there are 4 or more, it becomes impossible to say anyting meaningful about
them all.

Deryk Barker
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