Reviews

I just added to this site a page devoted to a laundry list of positive reviews of my work. I've left out the bad ones. One of those, from Charleston, SC, said I had no idea how to perform Mozart. Another, from Hartford, said I was "not yet ready for prime time." Interestingly, this one was from a retrospective about the music director search there, in which I had participated, and this same reviewer had given the concert a rave (it is, of course, included in my reviews file...). Hmmm...how fickle reviewers can be. (Side note: that search was won by Edward Cumming, a very good conductor and a very nice guy.) I've been reviewed by some extremely insightful and gifted reviewers, and by some imbeciles; by some very-well-meaning music lovers, and by some mean-spirited arch-enemies of all things good. In the end, the old adage is true: if you are willing to believe the good reviews, you must also believe the bad ones. So it's best not to pay them any heed at all.

I have nonetheless added a page devoted to a laundry list of positive reviews of my work.
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