Breaking news from Cleveland via Baltimore (well may you ask). Apparently Don Rosenberg, one of America's most discerning and experienced classical music critics, has been "reassigned" from the Cleveland Orchestra beat. There's a suggestion (or suspicion) that this move is the result of the Musical Arts Association bringing pressure to bear on the local broadsheet, The Plain Dealer – the orchestra's more powerful supporters unable to stomach Don's willingness to bring clear-headed criticism to the performances and to hold the orchestra to the high standards that it undoubtedly deserves.
My view: The Plain Dealer would be better off reassigning the sub-editors who (at least in the period 2003–05) seem to have delighted in forming selectively sensational headlines from Don's negative observations, undermining the balance and objectivity of what he had to say.
