The New York Times on Counterpoint

I am often, or usually, quite critical of music journalism because it tends to misinform the reader/listener. But there are exceptions. I just ran into an excellent one at the New York Times site. I hesitate to link, because it is to a video clip that is preceded by a brief commercial and it will also automatically go on afterwards to another video. But in this case I think it is worth it. Here is the New York Times' classical music critic Anthony Tommasini, who is also a pianist and not a bad one, giving us a short, but good, course in counterpoint.

And on that note, here is Zuzana Ruzicková playing the first six Bach two-part inventions on harpsichord: