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G.B. Shaw & Music
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To the Editor:
Terry Teachout’s contention in his review of Bernard Shaw, by Michael Holroyd [Books in Review, February], that in musical matters Shaw “became uncomfortable whenever he strayed very far from the shallows” is a laughable put-down of a body of sparkling and penetrating criticism that unlike most journalism is worth reading a century after it was written. Shaw’s prophetic insight is perhaps best shown in his insistence on the supreme greatness of Mozart; for better or worse, he was a pioneer in the transformation of Mozart the Victorian-era China-doll figure into today’s cult idol.
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