"An Artistic Activist"

"Though he was a critic, and a great one, Gleason didn't review art or life from the sidelines; he wrote from inside the moral, political, and artistic crises of the times, and he perceived them clearly and understood them passionately. His standard of critical practice and his model of critical responsibility are awe-inspiring."

Richard Brody in The New Yorker reviews Ralph J. Gleason's Music in the Air.