Monday, August 01, 2005
Innaview with music critic, Alex Ross
"Why do you think blogging is good for critics?
"I'm not sure if it's good for critics it's an all-too-effective mode of
procrastination but it's definitely good for readers. In the classical arena, people are starved for a national conversation about music, because there are no regular critics at almost every magazine you could name: Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, even The New Republic and The New York Review of Books. Why can't Rolling Stone or Spin publish a classical piece now and then? Rolling Stone used to, but no more. Nor is there classical music coverage on TV, except when Yo-Yo Ma loses his cello or some freak masters the tuba at the age of 3. So people have discovered the internet and created new kinds of communities there. See blogs by Marion Rosenberg, Helen Radice, Kyle Gann, Trrill, La Cieca, and The Standing Room.
"Writers such as these are changing the tone of the classical conversation, discarding the old guardedness and stuffiness and pseudo-objectivity. They speak with the wit and rage and passion that the art demands. Blogging will probably play a major role in the ongoing revolution and renaissance of classical music, which, I believe, will once again become a popular art in the next 20 years. You heard it here first."
(via mediabistro daily newsfeed) ¶ 8/01/2005 08:35:00 AM
"Why do you think blogging is good for critics?
"I'm not sure if it's good for critics it's an all-too-effective mode of
procrastination but it's definitely good for readers. In the classical arena, people are starved for a national conversation about music, because there are no regular critics at almost every magazine you could name: Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, even The New Republic and The New York Review of Books. Why can't Rolling Stone or Spin publish a classical piece now and then? Rolling Stone used to, but no more. Nor is there classical music coverage on TV, except when Yo-Yo Ma loses his cello or some freak masters the tuba at the age of 3. So people have discovered the internet and created new kinds of communities there. See blogs by Marion Rosenberg, Helen Radice, Kyle Gann, Trrill, La Cieca, and The Standing Room.
"Writers such as these are changing the tone of the classical conversation, discarding the old guardedness and stuffiness and pseudo-objectivity. They speak with the wit and rage and passion that the art demands. Blogging will probably play a major role in the ongoing revolution and renaissance of classical music, which, I believe, will once again become a popular art in the next 20 years. You heard it here first."
(via mediabistro daily newsfeed) ¶ 8/01/2005 08:35:00 AM
