One of the most frustrating aspects of reading music reviews is the complete letdown that can follow when you go from a “good review” to listening to the music reviewed. Part of the danger resides in the fact that a “good review” can mean, beyond any judgement on the music, merely a well-written review; in other words, we can be swayed by a piece of rhetoric – which is, let it be said, not to be sniffed at. Rhetoric is a fine art in itself; in fact one of the seven …
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