It was indeed over 20 years ago (I only heard about it afterwards, because it happened while I was in Seattle, but I looked up the relevant newspapers much later).
True, I haven't forgotten this, and I never read a Tircuit review of a concert I've attended without half an eye open for a factual slip that would prove he wasn't there. But I also believe in forgiveness.
In this case, my own ear (which I only trust because I've found over the years that it usually tells me what more experienced critics also say) agrees more with Kosman than with Tircuit about the intonation. But Tircuit describes well the overall effect of the concert as I experienced it, and Kosman does not.
I enjoy Kosman's writing, and agree with some of his reviews, though sometimes he surprises me. Of the symphony concert I attended this week, Kosman wrote, "who else but Bruckner, that endearingly naive believer, would have thought to dedicate a symphony to God?" Uh, try Haydn, who dedicated every work he wrote to God.
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True, I haven't forgotten this, and I never read a Tircuit review of a concert I've attended without half an eye open for a factual slip that would prove he wasn't there. But I also believe in forgiveness.
In this case, my own ear (which I only trust because I've found over the years that it usually tells me what more experienced critics also say) agrees more with Kosman than with Tircuit about the intonation. But Tircuit describes well the overall effect of the concert as I experienced it, and Kosman does not.
I enjoy Kosman's writing, and agree with some of his reviews, though sometimes he surprises me. Of the symphony concert I attended this week, Kosman wrote, "who else but Bruckner, that endearingly naive believer, would have thought to dedicate a symphony to God?" Uh, try Haydn, who dedicated every work he wrote to God.