I wanted to write a short note about something I covered in my first EMF review post. In that post I mentioned that Marta played a short piece by (and with) pianist Gideon Rubin on the opening chamber concert of the summer. Apparently Gideon found this blog while searching for (legitimate) reviews of the concert and mentioned to Marta that I didn’t say anything about his piece. I feel a bit bad about this!

In an effort to rectify this, I wanted to say that the piece was quite nice, well-performed, and I enjoyed it very much. However, I am quite reluctant to post an opinion (positive or negative) about a piece written by someone who, like me, is not a “household name” composer and especially not by someone with whom I am well acquainted. I will leave those sorts of reviews to Mr. Ross and his peers as I think we composers should simply support each other’s careers and music and keep our opinions to ourselves.

So in this case the old axiom of “If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all” definitely does NOT apply!

(For the record, I think composers who are no longer with us, and haven’t been for several decades or centuries, such as J.M. Sperger, are fair game. I still can’t get over that piece but would love to hear any suggestions for works of his that might change negative opinion.)