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I found this link via The Oregonian<\/a>‘s<\/em> classical music critic David Stabler’s blog<\/a>. Very interesting reading. Basically, Time Out New York put together a panel of critics to evaluate the major critics in New York City in all major areas, including classical music<\/a>. Our own colleague in the blogosphere, Alex Ross<\/a>, rated #1 in this survey – kudos, Alex! A number of the NYTimes critics were savaged, Anthony Tommasini and Anne Midgette in particular. I’d be inclined to agree with all of the results, though it is a very subjective thing to judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found this link via The Oregonian‘s classical music critic David Stabler’s blog. Very interesting reading. Basically, Time Out New York put together a panel of critics to evaluate the major critics in New York City in all major areas, including classical music. Our own colleague in the blogosphere, Alex Ross, rated #1 in this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,117,17,3655,3666],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-classical","tag-critic","tag-criticism","tag-news","tag-oregon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-2c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":348,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/06\/02\/assault-on-critics\/","url_meta":{"origin":136,"position":0},"title":"assault on critics","author":"Charles Noble","date":"June 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Henry Fogel writes about the alarming trend of major US newspapers jettisoning their classical music critics.\u00c2\u00a0 They say that they aren't diminishing their arts coverage, but shouldn't an expert provide the coverage?\u00c2\u00a0 Here's a link to the blog entry.","rel":"","context":"In "the orchestra world"","block_context":{"text":"the orchestra world","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/the-orchestra-world\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":967,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/13\/ny-times-cutbacks-hit-culture-beat\/","url_meta":{"origin":136,"position":1},"title":"NY Times cutbacks hit culture beat","author":"Charles Noble","date":"May 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"As reported in the online journal Musical America, the New York Times has offered buyouts to several writers on its culture beats. 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