“Critical evaluation was transformed into understanding, and criticism became not an act of judgment but of comprehension.”

—  Charles Rosen

Source: The Frontiers of Meaning: Three Informal Lectures on Music (1994), Ch. 1 : The Frontiers of Nonsense

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American pianist and writer on music 1927–2012

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