Klarinet Archive - Posting 000559.txt from 1999/03

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fwd: Gramophone Reviews De-coded
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 04:22:35 -0500

That seems a pretty concise evaluation to me.
This review affair is principally to do with linguistic convention.
One of the forms of English critical language has traditionally been a
form of understatement, in effect, apologising for not being an
upper-class Philistine. The actual level of knowledge of the reviewer is
often completely concealed by it, so it is not really justifiable to infer
a particular kind of ignorance. (Of course it often looks silly).
Roger Shilcock

On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 HatNYC62@-----.com wrote:

> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 16:15:37 EST
> From: HatNYC62@-----.com
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Fwd: Gramophone Reviews De-coded
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> << Roger Shilcock wrote:-
> > These are (fortunately) largely from a bygone age. >>
>
> I will never forget the opening sentence of a British review of Bernstein's
> (then more or less new) recording of Beethoven's 5th with the VPO. Although
> not Grammophone, it is a typical example. The sentence? "This will not do."
>
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