Said "Expert" being Frank Zappa. All I can say is, I like his music, but he ain't no Richard Taruskin.
Ok, I'll give you that.
Maybe he's a little closer to Nicolas Slonimsky.
In fact, he was this close once:
Bonus: Slonimsky's Lexicon of Musical Invective
"Who says the world of classical music is sedate or even dull? Certainly not anyone who has read Nicolas Slonimsky's Lexicon of Musical Invective! This funny, irascible little book details contemporary critical attacks on virtually all of the great musical figures of the past 200 years. Beethoven is here, along with Liszt, Mahler, Schumann, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, and Wagner -- all of whom were skewered by the critics at some point in their careers. No classical music lover (or hater!) will want to live without it."
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