The critic John Leonard died earlier this week, at 69, of lung cancer.
When I first started writing music criticism I read everything of his I could get my hands on, and eagerly awaited his appearances on CBS' Sunday Morning, where he usually reviewed television shows. He was a fine stylist--his long, looping sentences were characterized by Whitmanesque lists and elegant punctuation.
The title of this little post is taken from A. O. Scott's appreciation in yesterday's New York Times.
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