Deposed Cleveland Critic Speaks

Don Rosenberg, the veteran music critic taken off the Cleveland Orchestra beat last week for being too tough on the orchestra’s music director, says that he was told by his editor that “my reviews were unfair, and I was attacking the orchestra.” He maintains that he has no personal ax to grind with conductor Franz Welser-Möst, but says, “I think this is a case of an extraordinary orchestra with an ordinary conductor.”