reviewer no longer to be confused by his notes
La Cieca’s cher public — and music lovers around the world — won’t have Bernard Holland to kick around any more. The veteran classical music reviewer is leaving the New York TImes after 27 years, though to us who read him regularly it has easily seemed twice that. Holland is one of about 85 NYT newsroom employees who have accepted a buyout offer intended to streamline the paper’s staff.
Remaining full-time classical music reviewers are Anthony Tommasini and Allan Kozinn; the paper also publishes reviews by James R. Oestreich (editor of classical music and dance) and freelancers Steve Smith and Vivien Schweitzer. [via musicalamerica.com]
Okay, so now the idle speculation: did he jump or was he pushed?
Remembering Bernard Holland, Part 1
Part 2: The Glory Years
Ding! Dong! The witch is dead!
and you like what is left? Effectly there is no one who knows voice.
clap clap.
sad
Not to be mean – ahem – but I’m guessing his buyout package consisted of a box of Ring-Dings and bus fare to Hoboken.
and you like what is left?
Did I say that? The freelancers are both very good and deserve a spot on staff, but apparently there are no plans for another hire.
you talk like novices.
sheoenberg and most critics after him pre wrote their reviews
their notes of the production and the history and then added several verbs here and there and the names of the “innocents”
led to slaughter. Harold left before the famous sulla tromba of Tucker who wrote him saying “%%%% you. You were seen leaving after mad scene.”
he isn’t the first and most likely isn’t the last.
Newspapers are losing money and getting rid of many of the longer-term employees. It isn’t a refection on the work of the individual employee.
Tiratosu: back in the days when the NYT would do overnight reviews, it is true that reviewers often would leave before the final scene so they could file a story before a 1 AM deadline. But it was a general protocol that the reviewer would note when he left (e.g., before the Immolation Scene).
What a loss. One less hack at the Times.
Are two hacks really better than one?