Wry Henry
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I just saw this little insight into the personality of music critic Henry Edward Krehbiel in A Met Broadcast Moment:
… eminent critic H.E. Krehbiel sniffed of [Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene] Onegin, “A more inane and amateurishly constructed opera book is not conceivable.” Perhaps the real source of his condescension was reflected in the headline of his review, “Eugene Onegin Given Hearty Greeting Here-Tschaikoffy’s [sic] Opera Awakens Unusual Interest in Public, Especially on the Lower East Side.”
He sounds a little on the pompous side (a universal Krehbiel trait, in my experience — it must be something about growing up having to pronounce and spell one’s name to everyone all the time). But he did have a way with the wry sarcasm, which I have to respect.
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