Outsider: John Rockwell on the Arts, 1967-2006 Review

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(More customer reviews)Reviewing classical music has to be one of the hardest jobs around. How would you keep thinking up words to describe something that is almost undescribable? How much of your critism has to come from your own likes or dislikes. Or is it maybe that your likes or dislikes is what people really want to read.
OK, so people want to read what Dr. Rockwell writes. They want to badly enough that for forty years he has been writing for a several newspapers and a string of magazines. And not unheard of publications but the New York Times, High Fidelity, Opera and more.
The essays in this book are selected from his full career. Having some opinions on the arts myself, I find some exactly right (of course that means that they agree with my own views), most of the time he is talking of performers, performances that I haven't seen and find merely interesting, some of the time I find myself wondering if we attended the same play (Webber's The Woman in White).
But what I do find is that the essays themselves are great. They are simply a delight to read - even when we went to a different play.

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This compilation by longtime New York Times music and arts critic John Rockwell features the creme de la creme of the renowned journalist's arts criticism and commentary over the past 40 years. Taken mostly from the Times, but also including pieces from 17 other sources, such as the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, the San Francisco Examiner, High Fidelity, Opera, and the Village Voice, these writings present Rockwell's unique vision of the arts scene over the past 40 years, with essays on classical music (including the breadth of contemporary works), rock, dance, art, film, theater, general arts topics, and reports from abroad.Rockwell's analysis includes parallels among the arts, insights from one to another, as he brilliantly communicates his aesthetic experiences to the reader.

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