About the Author

Bernard Holland is a former music critic for The New York Times. He divides his time between New York City and Campobello Island, Canada.

Reviews

"No one today can match the limpid elegance and intellectual precision of his style, which recalls the heyday of Virgil Thomson." -The New Yorker
"Perhaps the most important of this town's arbiters." -The Independent
"Holland has a remarkable ability to conjure up the essence of a composer of a piece of music in a few deftly chosen words. He is, I think, an aphorist of unparalleled virtuosity." -San Francisco Chronicle