Steve Smith, music editor for Time Out New York and a freelance reviewer who often writes classical music reviews for the New York Times, writes about his review of the Gilbert Kaplan led performance of Mahler 2 with the New York Philharmonic here. Interesting reading, and it shows how critical a missing sentence can be in the course of composing a piece of criticism. Plus it has the best ever blog post title: Todtenfubar. Ausgezeichnet!
And, on a side note – our own OSO bass trombonist Charley Reneau posted a comment to Norman Lebrecht’s blog entry on his use of “trombone” rather than “trombonist” to refer to David Finlayson. Major point scored, Charley! And Lebrecht, to his credit, responded graciously.