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Bernard Holland

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Bernard Holland spent 27 years as a music critic at The New York Times, filing 4,575 articles, serving five years as its Chief Music Critic.

The Three Tenors is like a benign tumor, unsightly but not life threatening. She bursts on to the Carnegie Hall stage like someone taking a shortcut to the night club next door. The white Southern male, in whose ranks I grew up, harbors a vision of Jeb Stuart riding his horse up Monument Avenue waving his sword and returning to the world good manners and spoon bread. "The Early Music Movement drove me into the arms of Leopold Stokowski where I have luxuriated ever since." "Vladimir Horowitz once offered to give me his cat. Having two already I declined." Chopin never really came from anywhere.

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