Dance Critics Can Relate...Part II

(Editor's note: It's tough all over. And check out the irony of classical music competing with dance for newspaper coverage back in 1974--the year I took courses in dance criticism at Dance Theater Workshop and The New School and started my so-called career in this field.)

The New York Times
Saturday, June 9, 2007
ARTS / MUSIC
Newspapers Trimming Classical Critics
By DANIEL J. WAKIN

Classical music criticism, a high-minded endeavor that has been around at least as long as newspapers and reached an English-language peak with George Bernard Shaw, has taken a series of hits in recent months.