Music Criticism Today by B. H. Haggin A FEW YEARS AGO, when I published a collection of my writing on music, an English reviewer of the book…
Afterimages, by Arlene Croce by B. H. Haggin THERE is general awareness that special powers are involved in, and required for, the composing of a
A Musical Season, by Andrew Porter by B. H. Haggin "Editors," as Bernard Shaw wrote, "by some law of Nature which still baffles science, are always ignorant of music"; and…
Responses, by David Cairns by B. H. Haggin The music critic is the professional listener, presumed to have an equipment of perception, judgment, and taste which the nonprofessional…
Two Conductors by B. H. Haggin The context I find necessary for an evaluation of Pierre Boulez and Michael Tilson Thomas begins with the remarkably perceptive…
II. On Music Criticism by B. H. Haggin Since I have been so far spared the fearsome thunderbolts of B. H. Haggin (I fully expected a few to…
In Memory of Guido Cantelli by B. H. Haggin When Guido Cantelli was killed in an airplane crash on November 24, 1956, the loss was what it would have…
On Being a Music Critic by B. H. Haggin As I recall my beginning as a music critic, I read, then I heard, or I heard and then read;…
