What do reviewers listen for at a classical music concert?
by Paul J. Pelkonen
You see us at the Philharmonic, at Carnegie Hall, at chamber music performances, and at the opera. We sit there sometimes scribbling in ugly notebooks, sometimes perusing progam notes or musical scores, sometimes with eyes closed, heads bowed in some sort of deep communion with the spirits of the creators of the music being performed.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
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| The protest against silence from The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. Art by Jules Feiffer © 1961 Random House LLC. |
