Praise and damnation
Monday, April 30th, 2007Nicholas Slonimsky’s famous “Lexicon of Musical Invective” has consoled many composers over the years. It is a collection, or lexicon, of terrible reviews for now-famous classical compositions from critics of the time of the works’ premieres.
Composer, conductor, author, hornist, publisher, and champion for young contemporary classical and jazz composers, Gunther Schuller advised me to never [...]