After Reviewers Ravaged Sergei Rachmaninoff ,The Composer Turned to Hypnosis
Article by Tony Sokol In the book “Lady Windermere's Fan,” Oscar Wilde’s Lord Darlington says a critic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Reviewers at the time had the power to devalue art with a quip. Artists, and people in general, can be sensitive to criticism. The great [...]