Article: Music and ballet 1973-1983.

FORTY YEARS AGO, The Nation had the best back-of-the-book section in the magazine business. James Agee's vivid movie reviews appeared regularly; Diana Trilling was making a well-deserved name for herself with her "Fiction in Review" column; and musical events were covered by B. H. Haggin, a fearless, tough-minded critic whose admirers included Dwight Macdonald, Stark Young, Randall Jarrell, and Arturo Toscanini. The Nation has long since hardened into a sclerotic house organ for the Friends of Alger Hiss, but B. H. Haggin, 84 years old and as ferociously independent as ever, continues to chronicle the musical scene, now for The Yale Review. In his latest book, Music and ...

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