Maestros of the pen
Subtitle: a history of classical music criticism in America
By: by Mark N. Grant ; Eric Friedheim, consulting editor.
Contributors: Friedheim, Eric.
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boston, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Musical criticism -- United States.; Music -- United States -- History and criticism.; Music -- United States -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Description: Among Reviewers of the Arts, classical music critics are perhaps the least esteemed by those they write about. Yet these often-despised beings are also, for better or worse, key players in the world of classical music. This first history of its kind, in which Mark N.

Grant deftly traces the development of music criticism in the United States from the early nineteenth century to the present, is both a comprehensive portrait gallery of our significant music critics and a study of the evolving role of classical music in American cultural life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-352) and index.