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Jocelyn Wang responds to Christopher Webber:
>>With respect, Jocelyn Wang's imperious dismissal of The Critics is
>>sentimental, romantic and plain wrong.
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>Funny, I have often read critics' sentimental, romantic and plain wrong
>dismissal of certain music (and films, and books). The eunoch analogy
>is alive and well.
What do you demand of classical music critics? They are human beings so
they are bound to make mistakes. I simply don't another your aversion
again critics. What do you want: a world without critics? So you would
have to extinguish yourself since you play the critic yourself (both of
music and of critics).
>I never said that critics were entirely useless. I did say that their
>contribution to music amounts to less than that of composers, even minor
>ones. My gripe is not with all critics, just those who think and act as
>though their hyperbole constitutes evidence that they are more important
>than they actually are.
The problem is that you sound very hyperbolic yourself. An old
psychological truth: we fight the fiercest fight against the people
who show us the quality in ourselves we like the least.
Robert
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