Klarinet Archive - Posting 000293.txt from 1995/01

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fredj@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Bad Reviews
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 00:39:13 -0500

Jim,
I remember from my Bibliographic Skills course that you can look
up newspapers and magazines which have concert reviews (including premiere
performances) both in "hard copy" directories and on CD ROM. I even
remember doing so for one of the class assignments. A good music
conservatory library (and librarian)
should be able to point you in the right direction. Happy hunting and
don't ignore foreign reviews (if you can understand them).

On Fri, 20 Jan 1995, Jim Freeman wrote:

> This might sound a little wierd, but I was wondering if any of you out in
> Klarinet land had any bad reviews of Elliot Carter's or Barber's music
> (reviews critical of the piece rather than the performance). The reason
> is that the quintet I play in (the City Winds) is doing a little tour up
> the coast of California, and the theme we'd like to base our concerts
> around is "when bad reviews happen to good composers - a concert with
> readings from the critics." We have help from Nicholas Slonimsky's
> Lexicon of Musical Invective, (bad reviews from contempories of Classical
> and Romantic -era composers), but nothing to read when we play Summer
> Music and Carter's 1948 Quintet. If any one has anything that springs to
> mind, I would appreciate hearing about it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Freeman (collnjim@-----.edu)
>