Hasibul Alam The classical music critic suffers the double indignity of opining on a field that the layman mostly spurn: not only must he deal with the fact that the public tends to look suspect on critics but he must also risk coming across as moved on a subject in which few deign to show any interest. The person whose profession is to write critiques of musical performances of classical music suffers from being disliked in two ways associated with writing his opinions on a topic that the ordinary person does not care about at all, to the point of avoiding it. First, people don't trust writers who write critiques of anything.
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Hasibul AlamThe classical music critic suffers the double indignity of opining on a field that the layman mostly spurn: not only must he deal with the fact that the public tends to look suspect on critics but he must also risk coming across as moved on a subject in which few deign to show any interest.The person whose profession is to write critiques of music