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Monthly Archives: January 2009

I got mine

Space is so tight for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra playing Verdi’s Requiem this week that your loyal critic-turned-mogul needed to buy a ticket. Ain’t got no comps, no how. I’ll be in the last row of the gallery (Row J), which happens to be where the hardest of the hard-core sit. (That doesn’t sound like [...]

Big Lebowski week

A week ago, some friends and I engaged in an email debate on the pros and cons of writers who aren’t classical-music experts writing about classical music in the New York Review of Books and elsewhere. Who said what about whom isn’t really important, but I would like to point out Printers Row Poet, the blog [...]