Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reported the Daily Herald critic: "I went skeptical, like most of the audience, I fancy, but after listening to a programme of Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Bloch and Enesco, I was convinced that Adler is a very considerable artist and that in his hands the harmonica can indeed be made to do almost anything-including playing chords and imitating a plucked string...
London audiences last week thought so too. But the Daily Mail's Critic Ralph Hill thought he saw a fundamental catch in it. Wrote he: "Where does this display lead to? Nowhere, as I see it. To substitute a mouth organ supported by a piano for an oboe and strings or for the delicate orchestral palette of Debussy may pass as a stunt, but musically it is a fantastic distortion of values. In short, the proper place for Mr. Adler's skillful and artistic manipulation of a mouth organ is the music hall .and not the hall...
Visitors found only one flaw: the soloists were a notch below the rest of the production. The Moscow News critic, D. Rabinovich, had another complaint to make: the crowning of a Czar had been made altogether too happy an event. (Even Mussorgsky, no Communist, had not intended that.) Wrote Critic Rabinovich: "One does not feel the forced note in their 'gaiety'. . . the very magnificence of the coronation scene creates a false impression of brightness and joy instead of its being somber and sinister...
...succeeding speeches, Olga Samaroff, musical educator, critic, and pianist, looked at criticism from the point of view of the performer, while Virgil Thomson, the New York Herald-Tribune's critic, did "The Art of Judging Music...
Miss Samaroff suggested means by which musical life in America could be decentralized and the performer enabled to depend less on the view of New York critics, while Thomson analyzed the processes by which a critic works...