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...comforted by the supposition that a vital piece of music (and by implication a vital artist) is bound to register favorably some day, no matter what the critics say. It is no easy task to balance this theory with some stark and fully documented facts presented by Miss Olga Samaroff. To get booking with a decent manager these days, in a country full of budding Rubinsteins and Heifetzes, a young artist must have the good word from New York's critics. Likewise, the composer, for instance, of a new opera. No rave notices equals no more performances of the opera...
...second level, purely practical problems of music criticism were discussed. Miss Olga Samaroff, pianist, educator, and former music critic of the New York Post, hit the most basic of these when she pointed out the importance of critics in making or breaking artists...
Many of the speakers approved of Miss Samaroff's suggestions for decentralizing New York City's music monopoly
...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...