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There can be no doubt that the number of newspapers and other journals who are reducing column centimetres of arts criticism in general and music ditto in particular and others who are dropping these altogether (as outlined in Alex Ross's piece to which Richard Barrett has linked above) - the chicken and egg question might be raised; does curtailment or discontinuation of such criticism in such publications lower the tone and expectations of what's left or is such curtailment or discontinuation the consequence of lowering of standards in such criticism? There are plenty of other issues on which comment can be made on this article (and on Ross's, not least his questioning of the evident gulf between the fact of sold-out opera performances and the alleged falling-off in demand for serious arts criticism), but that might do for starters...
There can be no doubt that the number of newspapers and other journals who are reducing column centimetres of arts criticism in general and music ditto in particular and others who are dropping these altogether (as outlined in Alex Ross's piece to which Richard Barrett has linked above) - the chicken and egg question might be raised; does curtailment or discontinuation of such criticism in such publications lower the tone and expectations of what's left or is such curtailment or discontinuation the consequence of lowering of standards in such criticism? There are plenty of other issues on which comment can be made on this article (and on Ross's, not least his questioning of the evident gulf between the fact of sold-out opera performances and the alleged falling-off in demand for serious arts criticism), but that might do for starters...
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