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glasbena kritika – nekoč in danes | music criticism – yesterday and today
Tjaša Ribizel Popič
Symphonic Matinees of Jeunesses Musicales Slovenia:
The First Two Decades
The concert programme and the performers are vital parts of the activities
of the Musical Youth of Slovenia, and the purpose of my contribution is to
shed light on different aspects of individual performances of the concert
programme by analysing various pieces of data: the time and place of per-
formance, the author, and the critical reception. On the basis of these data,
I try to discern trends in the music reviews published in the Musical Youth
magazine (GM) and in daily newspapers.
The concerts themselves, however, were for the most part positively re-
ceived, both in terms of programming and performance. It is important
that there were many reviews that most of the writers covered most of the
concert events and that these value judgements were published in the dai-
ly newspapers of the time, both in Delo and Dnevnik. It was thus possible
to spread awareness of the existence of art music and concert events at the
same time through their publication in the daily newspapers, and at the
same time provide feedback on a particular performance to the perform-
ers and authors.
Keywords: Symphonic Matinees, Jeunesses Musicales Slovenia, Music Cri-
ticism, Trend Analysis
Alex Ross
Classical Music Criticism: An American Perspective
In the United States, as in most other places, the classical-music critic is an
endangered species. It would appear that fewer than ten people in a nation
of more than three hundred million make their living writing full-time
about classical music in the media. There is no reason to believe that the
trend will be reversed. On the other hand, musicology is more public-fac-
ing than it was been in recent decades, with scholars regularly contributing
free-lance to leading publications. The future of American criticism proba-
bly lies in a fusion of journalistic and scholarly discourses. Yet journalistic
criticism is still a vocation worth fighting for, not lease because of its poten-
tial for intellectual independence.
Keywords: criticism, journalism, musicology, America, crisis
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Tjaša Ribizel Popič
Symphonic Matinees of Jeunesses Musicales Slovenia:
The First Two Decades
The concert programme and the performers are vital parts of the activities
of the Musical Youth of Slovenia, and the purpose of my contribution is to
shed light on different aspects of individual performances of the concert
programme by analysing various pieces of data: the time and place of per-
formance, the author, and the critical reception. On the basis of these data,
I try to discern trends in the music reviews published in the Musical Youth
magazine (GM) and in daily newspapers.
The concerts themselves, however, were for the most part positively re-
ceived, both in terms of programming and performance. It is important
that there were many reviews that most of the writers covered most of the
concert events and that these value judgements were published in the dai-
ly newspapers of the time, both in Delo and Dnevnik. It was thus possible
to spread awareness of the existence of art music and concert events at the
same time through their publication in the daily newspapers, and at the
same time provide feedback on a particular performance to the perform-
ers and authors.
Keywords: Symphonic Matinees, Jeunesses Musicales Slovenia, Music Cri-
ticism, Trend Analysis
Alex Ross
Classical Music Criticism: An American Perspective
In the United States, as in most other places, the classical-music critic is an
endangered species. It would appear that fewer than ten people in a nation
of more than three hundred million make their living writing full-time
about classical music in the media. There is no reason to believe that the
trend will be reversed. On the other hand, musicology is more public-fac-
ing than it was been in recent decades, with scholars regularly contributing
free-lance to leading publications. The future of American criticism proba-
bly lies in a fusion of journalistic and scholarly discourses. Yet journalistic
criticism is still a vocation worth fighting for, not lease because of its poten-
tial for intellectual independence.
Keywords: criticism, journalism, musicology, America, crisis
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