Richard Pennycuick:

>I've been reading Gramophone for nearly forty years and I have to agree
>that it's a shadow of what it once was.  The British bias has worried
>me for years, and I've tended to filter this from a review, although UK
>listers may disagree.  I still buy it because, as Len Fehskens observed,
>despite your best endeavours, you miss knowing of some releases.

I *liked* the "British bias." I mean, at least I found out something
about the musical scene outside my own country.  What finally turned me
off was that the articles, formerly so well-written and so informative,
became not.

Steve Schwartz