So the classical-music critics of The Times have selected important audio and video recordings of "The Ring" currently available for discussion.

Here are comments by Times classical-music critics on CD's appropriate to the Easter and Passover season.

In 1976 he became the chief classical-music critic of the New York Daily News where he worked for the next seventeen years.

"We have always had nostalgia for lost melodrama," said Lorenzo Arruga, a classical-music critic who writes for the weekly magazine Panaroma.

This newspaper created its own interloper recently by sending a classical-music critic to hear a celebration of Cole Porter.

Here are some favorite contemporary recordings of the classical-music critics of The New York Times.

At newspapers and magazines, as here at The New Yorker, classical-music critics and pop-music critics are usually different people.

Plenty, as can be seen on page C34, where the classical-music critics of The New York Times list some of their favorite Brahms recordings.

So the classical-music critics of The New York Times take this opportunity to discuss some of their favorite Schubert recordings, on pages 22 and 23.

In the early 1930s, Garrigues was not only covering civic news, but he had also volunteered to become the Daily News opera and classical-music critic.