Critics make mistakes all the time. A musicologist named Nicholas Slonimsky collected them — short-sighted, ignorant, or vitriolic reviews of works we now consider masterpieces. We set excerpts from Slonimsky’s Lexicon of Musical Invective to music. Produced by Jonathan Mitchell.
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