11.   As the music industry slices itself into ever thinner market fragments, the language of music critics is dutifully following along.

12.   At the newspaper where Mr. Fussy works, he occasionally meets the movie reviewers or the rock music critics, stumbling into work just as Mr. F. is leaving.

13.   At the time, the venerable E. Clyde Whitlock was the music critic for the morning Star-Telegram.

14.   At the very least, it has kept him in the limelight, even though music critics marked his expiration date for three or four years ago.

15.   Bernard Holland was named chief music critic.

16.   Born in West Roxbury, Mass., a leafy suburb of Boston, he attended his first operas with his father, the music critic Olin Downes.

17.   A music critic bored by an evening of Johann Strauss will offend people who like Strauss.

18.   A music critic for The Times ventures on an elegant piece of social reportage that salvages mundane, rarely examined details of slacker life.

19.   Aden has moved up in the world and has a regular following, according to Peter Margasak, music critic for the Chicago Reader, an alternative weekly.

20.   After the concert, a music critic cornered Morris in his dressing room.