name: Lawrence Gilman
birth_date: 1878-07-05 00:00:00
death_date: 1939-09-08 00:00:00
genres: Music
avg_rating: 3.44
ratings_count: 18
about: Lawrence Gilman was a U.S. author and music critic. He earned later notoriety for his scathing negative reviews of compositions that later became known as classics. He described George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, for example, as trite, feeble, conventional, vapid, fussy, futile, lifeless, stale, derivative and inexpressive. Lawrence Gilman was a U.S. author and music critic. He earned later notoriety for his scathing negative reviews of compositions that later became known as classics. He described George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, for example, as trite, feeble, conventional, vapid, fussy, futile, lifeless, stale, derivative and inexpressive. ...more