Word: newman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kind of criticism Mr. Newman is talking about cannot be done on a newspaper. For a critic is essentially a person who feels and thinks; and though feeling may, on occasion, be swift enough to catch the third edition, thought takes time. The weeklies might manage some real criticism, only they...
...Ernest Newman, writer on Music for The New York Evening Post, told in cipient "journalists" of the Columbia School that "there have never been, there is not today, of the music critics, one who can be called a real critic...
...active contemporary critical fraternity that includes in its ranks such contributors to the permanent literature of musical comment as Lawrence Gilman, William J. Henderson and Ernest Newman, cannot be said to be utterly destitute of real critics...
...Broadly speaking, though, Mr. Newman is absolutely right-certainly so far as concerns the newspaper critics. I sometimes wonder whether, strictly speaking, we have any right to be called music critics at all. At least nine-tenths of our time and energy is spent in writing appraisals of performances. The music, most of it, is not new, and what we write, when boiled down, amounts to but little more than saying that it was performed better or worse than it was the last time we heard it. Reduce any average newspaper music critique to its lowest terms, and you will...
These critical deriders, Miss Newman, in a brilliant volume that is at once an anthology and a book of criticism, disproves. She writes the short story's pedigree. She arranges in a line short stories selected from Petronius, Boccaccio, Voltaire, Hans Christian and Sherwood Anderson, Merimee, De Maupassant, Chekov, James Joyce, Henry James, Jules Laforgue, Paul Morand. Before each story is a brief critical preface describing the influences that shaped each writer, the influences that each set in motion, the significance of each in the line of heroic descent...