tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post4219468529779708572..comments2024-01-20T23:55:26.269-08:00Comments on The Detritus Review: Shitty Review ReduxUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-20353804114344264802009-11-25T06:35:10.009-08:002009-11-25T06:35:10.009-08:00I love your blog! Keep up the excellent work plea...I love your blog! Keep up the excellent work please!!<br />Common Cents Blog<br />http://www.commoncts.blogspot.com<br /><br />ps. Link Exchange??commoncentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14497825816313122743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-225431932858147082009-11-23T12:50:57.174-08:002009-11-23T12:50:57.174-08:00Excellent points, Danny.
And, I realize that Ms...Excellent points, Danny. <br /><br />And, I realize that Ms. Chen is a student at Columbia, and I don't really mean to attack her specifically, but more the overall tendency of reviewers to write ignorantly on those pieces they dislike.<br /><br />It's one thing to be an immature writer, which she is, but it's an entirely different thing to be purposefully ignorant -- even if it's the Columbia school paper. <br /><br />Although, I fully understand your objection. Point well taken.Gustavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05316458340368681169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3371351138596055444.post-920239817712456512009-11-23T11:28:13.555-08:002009-11-23T11:28:13.555-08:00Now that is the piece I listened to. I think the ...Now <i>that</i> is the piece I listened to. I think the opening line of the review should be highlighted: <i>In the field where Chinese composers and performers and Western classical music converge, East has been successfully meeting West long enough that the concept is closer to a norm -- or at least accepted cultural fact -- than a novelty.</i> Atonality is coming up on its centennial, 12-tone and futurism are almost 80, etc. etc., and yes, Asiany classical music has been on the scene for more than 50 years (since the breakout of another of Messiaen's disciples, Takemitsu), so we can stop pretending it's brand new.<br /><br /><br /><br />I can't believe this, but I'm going to defend Dorothy Chen on the grounds that she's a student at Columbia writing a review for the student paper. The reviews she writes are about the quality you'd expect from a student paper. So if it seems like she doesn't actually know that much about music, then she probably doesn't. I think we should ease up on her until poor reviews under her byline show up in real papers.Dannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07294716220776027168noreply@blogger.com