Critical Conversation: What’s Wrong With Music Critics?

It’s a shrinking world for classical music critics and the artform they cover, writes Norman Lebrecht in AJ’s weeklong music critics’ blog: “I work with some outstanding music critics, brilliantly perceptive, dedicated to their craft. Just don’t ask most of them to think outside the box. Music critics, like the art they review, have turned timorously inwards, unable to fight their shrinking corner effectively because they have such little understanding of the pressures facing the editors who employ them.”