He left the business world to write full time - poetry, essays and music criticism - in 1992.
Were you ever interested in trying straight music criticism?
Ossovskii wrote his first piece of music criticism in 1894.
But in the context of music criticism, those would be fighting words.
He continued to write music criticism for that publication up until his death in 1986 at the age of 82.
The idea of lasting value came only later, and we can see it arriving in early 19th-century music criticism.
So he turned to music criticism, and began writing free for local alternative papers.
For a while I wrote music criticism, which put more distance between me and the instrument.
Next time, let's have a book review and leave the music criticism in its proper place.
Included in its 2,000 pages is a gold mine of music criticism.