It is not the first nor the last time a reviewer will trash Yanni. Either you like him and his music, or you don’t. You might even hate everything Yanni. On the homepage of newspaper The Columbus Dispatch is a review of Yanni’s recent concert at Nationwide Arena, Columbus, OH. Reviewer Margaret Quamme writes:

Yanni has accomplished what few would believe possible: He’s upped the melodrama on his already none-too-subtle concert extravaganza by adding four supercharged voices. The result is a soup of overwrought sound washing over an increasingly stupefied audience.

But there are some comments that are at least a little positive:

The singers added their own, sometimes pedestrian lyrics to Yanni’s possibly mesmerizing and possibly annoyingly repetitive melodies. Most successful was Nathan Pacheco, in part, perhaps, because his lyrics weren’t in English, and so couldn’t be criticized, and in part because his operatic arias played off Yanni’s simple melodies and basic rhythms, rather than following them slavishly.

Read the whole review here.

Be also sure to check out the comments by readers that also attended the concert. They have another opinion about the concert.