A few years ago, Stephen Rubin came to a realization: most classical music criticism was, as he puts it, “rotten.” “I felt that there were only a handful of critics that were any good,” he says. On a ...

September is an exciting one in classical music, it’s a month that brings the launch of new seasons from the Dallas and Fort Worth Symphonies as well as several local chamber groups. Next week on ...

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Last weekend, I tried something for a review that I had never done before. Normally, I take copious notes during a performance, and refer to them, to a greater or lesser extent depending on how I feel ...

News broke last month that Scott Cantrell, the Dallas Morning News’ full-time classical music critic since 1999, will be taking a buyout offered by the paper effective this September. Cantrell has ...

There's been a lot of talk in the past few weeks about cutbacks, or possible cutbacks, in classical-music criticism. Minneapolis! The newspaper's classical critic takes a buyout when cutbacks leave no ...