Donal Henahan
Donal Henahan
Donal Henahanwas an American music critic and journalist who had lengthy associations with the Chicago Daily News and The New York Times. With the Times he won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1986; he had been a finalist in 1982...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth28 February 1921
CountryUnited States of America
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It will never be mistaken for a high school gymnasium or a meeting room in a Midwestern motel.
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Perhaps no hall of comparable size anywhere has served so nobly as a spawning ground for young talent and, it must be said, as a graveyard for the hopes of the mediocre.
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[Rubinstein was] a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist.
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Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung’s work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out again…in Messiaen, a feeling for the music’s reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance.
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The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.
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When her name is mentioned in the opera history books we will recall that vibrant, soaring tone-that and the blinding, high-beam-headlight smile that she flashed on her fans at each curtain call.