Re: GG: Newspaper and magazine articles

[Bruce Cross <b.cross2@sympatico.ca>]

This from the paper that contained in Vol. 1, No. 1, a sympathetic article
on hatemonger Ernst Zundel.  Not an auspicious start.  Shall
we start a survey on how many of us have been laid in the last five years? 
The results could make an instructive letter to the editor.
Criticism on Canadian papers has deteriorated in recent years. 
Critics who retire are not replaced.  (eg. Ottawa Citizen). 
Some who survive are writing a promotional piece before the concert, and
a supposed critique of the same concert the next night.  (Hamilton
Spectator).  Others have simply gone off the deep end.
In addition, school music education in this province is disappearing. 
To summarise, standards everywhere are in rapid decline.
Otherwise, I'm feeling  quite cheerful (see above survey).

Bruce
(I attended the first few hours of the GGG, then got called away on another matter, so I can't speak to Tamara Bernstein's lecture.  She's right though, about some of the buffoonery surrounding the cult of Gould.  How many of you were there in '92, when people mobbed the father and cousin of Gould (both since deceased), hoping to touch the hem of their garments?  How many of you have heard the nonsense "I peered into his eyes.  And the orbs got bigger and bigger...etc, etc)

Claude B. Zachary wrote:

The National Post article can be found at:
http://www.nationalpost.com/artslife.asp?s2=arts&f=990928/89359.html

Any reactions?

Claude