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Originally posted by DHP:
Any hack with a set of encyclopedias and spell
check can become a music reviewer.

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Originally posted by DHP:
Last time I checked there wasn't a degree in musical review

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Originally posted by DHP:
. . . or an audition tape for principal music reviewer

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Originally posted by DHP:
Do you honestly think there is a musician in the Philharmonic who gives a **** what some failed Julliard hack thinks?

I doubt it!

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Originally posted by DHP:
If you aren't putting it on the line every night then keep your trap shut.

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If you are "putting it on the line every night," you are getting paid money to perform in front of other people who have paid their good money for the opportunity/priviledge. You are doing something very public, and people have a right to think you are good or you suck. On any given night you choose to "put it on the line." And if you can't handle being told you screwed up in public when, in fact, you have screwed up in public, perhaps you are better suited for an anonymous job in a cubicle somewhere where no one will pay to watch you nor will any newspaper writer come to review your work. Or perhaps you should become a music teacher or do some other musical profession that does not involve newspaper writers or potential public embarrasment when you mess up or the glory when you nail your solos.

Or perhaps you should become a music critic and show them how it really should be done.

Of course, I'm not neccessarilly talking about you yourself, DHP . . . just whoever this hypothetical "you" is you mentioned who happened to be "putting it on the line everynight."

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Originally posted by WestOfPCH:

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Originally posted by DHP:
Any hack with a set of encyclopedias and spell
check can become a music reviewer.

Yeah, and any hack with a few hundred dollars, some lips, lungs, and some fingers can play the French Horn. It doesn't mean you are a good one, or that someone is going to pay to hear you play the horn.

**That was a laim response. Are you calling Phil Myers someone with a few hundred bucks, a few fingers and and a pair of lips? He knows more in
5 seconds than a reviewer will know if 5 lifetimes!

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Originally posted by DHP:
Last time I checked there wasn't a degree in musical review

Geez, DHP, when was the last time you checked?? In 30 seconds, I found this at the USC Thornton School of Music's website:

"The PhD degree in historical musicology, offered by the Department of Musicology, prepares their recipients for careers in musical research, writing and university teaching. Through seminars and lectures students in musicology explore the breadth of music, including topics in music of the world, popular music, performance practices, criticism, jazz and film, theory and musical analysis."

**So thanks for pointing out that music reviewer can not only be failed musicians, but also failed musical researchers and failed university teachers...and nobody with a PhD is writing
concert reviews for a newspaper! Again, why
would you need a degree to review concerts?

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Originally posted by DHP:
. . . or an audition tape for principal music reviewer

Allow me to be just as sarcastic: I'm sure the New Yorker never saw anything Alex Ross wrote before they hired him. Completely blind hire -- ok, maybe they looked at his resume. Oh, and that Pulitzer Prize that the much-reviled Martin Bernheimer won when he was the Music Critic of the Los Angeles Times?? -- Yeah, that's completely worthless too, because those Pulitzer guys aren't musicians nor are they Music Critics, so they must be completely ignorant hacks who have no clue what they are doing. Go ahead, continue to be angry and ignorant. It's a free country.

**Was does this hack have to do with a guy who won a Pulitzer?

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Originally posted by DHP:
Do you honestly think there is a musician in the Philharmonic who gives a **** what some failed Julliard hack thinks?

I doubt it!

Great, then by definition, he can write his opinion of the concerts he attends, and we don't need to try to fight the Philharmonic's fights -- they don't care, after all.

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Originally posted by DHP:
If you aren't putting it on the line every night then keep your trap shut.

If you are "putting it on the line every night," you are getting paid money to perform in front of other people who have paid their good money for the opportunity/priviledge. You are doing something very public, and people have a right to think you are good or you suck. On any given night you choose to "put it on the line." And if you can't handle being told you screwed up in public when, in fact, you have screwed up in public, perhaps you are better suited for an anonymous job in a cubicle somewhere where no one will pay to watch you nor will any newspaper writer come to review your work. Or perhaps you should become a music teacher or do some other musical profession that does not involve newspaper writers or potential public embarrasment when you mess up or the glory when you nail your solos.

Or perhaps you should become a music critic and show them how it really should be done.

Of course, I'm not neccessarilly talking about you yourself, DHP . . . just whoever this hypothetical "you" is you mentioned who happened to be "putting it on the line everynight."

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Originally posted by DHP:
**The worthlessness of those reviewing concerts from row ZZ is more apparent to people who are on stage rather than those who are not
....are the later or the former?

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Originally posted by DHP:
..but then again I think hitting a fast ball off Roger Clemens might be a tad easier than playing Haydn 48!

DHP