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Carrie Smith

The liner notes to the CD reissue of Only You Can Do It feature laudatory remarks from jazz critics Rex Reed, Leonard Feather, Richard Sudhalter, and John S. Wilson.

Dinu Lipatti

The Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Harold C. Schonberg wrote of Lipatti's 1947–48 Chopin concert recordings: "this is piano-playing of a stature that few artists of his generation could have come near approaching".

Henry Mazer

Music critic William Russo wrote: "The Sinfonietta is one of the finest groups of musicians I have ever heard".

Invisible Republic

Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes is a book by music critic Greil Marcus about the creation and cultural importance of The Basement Tapes, a series of recordings made by Bob Dylan in 1967 in collaboration with The Hawks, who would subsequently become known as The Band.

Jan Maklakiewicz

Jan Adam Maklakiewicz (24 November 1899, Chojnata, Congress Poland – 8 February 1954, Warsaw) was a Polish composer, conductor, critic, and music educator.

Long Crichel

Long Critchel House was bought in 1945 by Edward Sackville-West, from 1962 the 5th Baron Sackville, the music critic Desmond Shawe-Taylor and art critic Eardley Knollys, who established "what in effect was a male salon, entertaining at the weekends a galaxy of friends from the worlds of books and music" in Long Crichel, including James Lees-Milne, a close friend of Knollys.


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8142 Zolotov

It is named after the Russian art and music critic and screenwriter Andrej Andreevich Zolotov, who is the author of more than 30 documentaries.

Abraham Colles

His grandson was the eminent music critic and lexicographer Henry Cope (H. C.) Colles.

Ann Powers

After a brief tenure as Blender magazine's senior critic, in March 2006 she accepted a position as chief pop-music critic at the Los Angeles Times, where she succeeded Robert Hilburn.

Artusi

Giovanni Artusi (1540–1613), composer, music theorist and famous reactionary music critic

Better as a Memory

The co-writers of the song are both pseudonymous: Scooter Carusoe is a pseudonym for Travis Hill, founder of Carnival Music, and Lady Goodman is a pseudonym of Holly Gleason, Chesney's publicist and a music critic.

Calvocoressi

Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi (2 Oct 1877 – 1 Feb 1944), music writer and music critic of Greek descent

Critical Metrics

Los Angeles Times senior music critic Ann Powers referred to the site as her "favorite snobby top 40 station."

Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads

Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads is a documentary film, released in 1992, and made by David A. Stewart in conjunction with his brother John J. Stewart, in collaboration with music critic and author Robert Palmer and documentary film maker Robert Mugge.

Detroit JazzStage

The packed audience included Linda Yohn (program director at WEMU-FM), Mark Stryker (The Detroit Free Press music critic) and many of Detroit's top jazz musicians.

Don Sanche

That and the reminiscent passages of Paer led Emil Haraszti, a music critic, to declare that the opera was not by Liszt at all but a production by Paer only.

Duo de l'ouvreuse de l'Opéra-Comique et de l'employé du Bon Marché

The work was written in March 1888 for a revue entitled Cent moins un staged at the house of the singer and patroness Madame Henriette Fuchs and was first performed at Fuch's house by Elisabeth Fuchs (her daughter) and Julien Tiersot (a music critic) in April 1888.

Édouard Schuré

Eduard (Édouard) Schuré (January 21, 1841 in Strasbourg – April 7, 1929 in Paris) was a French philosopher, poet, playwright, novelist, music critic, and publicist of esoteric literature.

Edward Lockspeiser

Lockspeiser became London music critic for the Yorkshire Post in 1936; before that he concentrated on composition and conducting, founding the Toynbee Hall Orchestra in 1934.

Edward Sackville

Edward Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville (1901 – 1965), British music critic, novelist and member of the House of Lords

Elephant Stone Records

Elephant Stone Records is a US record label formed in 2002 in Los Angeles by music critic and former Dionysus Records publicist Ben Szporluk (Ben Vendetta) and his artist wife Arabella Proffer (Bella Vendetta).

Evening Herald

The life of Herald music critic Chris Wasser was threatened by fans of boy band The Wanted in 2012 following the publication of his review of their gig in Dublin.

Ferdinand Pfohl

Pfohl studied law at Prague, then in Leipzig he studied music as private pupil of Oscar Paul and attended courses in philosophy at the university, worked as music critic at Leipziger Tageblatt and Königlich-Leipziger Zeitung; from November 1892 to 1931 he was music editor of Hamburger Nachrichten, since 1913 to 1934 teacher and co-director of Vogt Conservatory in Hamburg (Thompson - Slonimsky - Sabin, p. 1619).

Fort Yawuh

In a contemporary review for Creem magazine, music critic Robert Christgau gave the album an "A–" and said that, although side one sides like cluttered free jazz at first, it is highlighted by the Ornette Coleman-like playing of saxophonist Dewey Redman.

Franco Lo Giudice

Music critic Alan Blyth described him as a "fiery, strong tenor" who "excelled in verismo parts."

Greg Sandow

In pop music, he became chief pop critic of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner in 1988, and in 1990 joined the staff of Entertainment Weekly, which had just begun publication, and where he served first as music critic and then as senior music editor.

H. C. Colles

He became assistant music critic of The Times, under J. A. Fuller-Maitland, and in 1911 succeeded him as chief critic.

Jaclyn Kenyon

Kenyon was named by Toronto Star music critic Ben Rayner as one of twelve "people to watch" in the Toronto area in 2012.

Jan Kleczyński

Jan Kleczyński, Sr. (1837–1895), Polish pianist, composer, music critic, and chess player

Jon Christopher Davis

The album also got the attention of popular music critic Robert K. Oermann: "I’m a huge fan of this man’s album. Its second single sizzles with zesty rhythm, yelping vocals, sidewinder guitar and a ridiculously catchy melody. The major-label “stars” on Music Row have nothing on this guy. Play this!"

K. V. Krishna Prasad

K V Krishna Prasad is the official music critic for the dailies “Deccan Herald” and “Prajavani”, Bangalore, the youngest ever to come to that post.

Karl Emanuel Klitzsch

Karl Emanuel Klitzsch, or often just Emanuel Klitzsch, (Schönheide, 30 October 1812 - Zwickau, 5 March 1889) was a German composer, organist and music critic.

Leora Kornfeld

Kornfeld got her start in radio at CITR-FM, the campus station at Vancouver's University of British Columbia where fellow disc jockeys included Terry McBride, founder of the Nettwerk label, former Globe and Mail music critic Chris Dafoe, CBC Radio commentator and digital marketing consultant Tod Maffin, and Vancouver Jazz Festival founder Robert Kerr.

Lipstick Traces

Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century, a non-fiction book by American rock-music critic Greil Marcus

Lucy Broadwood

Through this association she was to become acquainted with, and was also distantly related, by the marriage of one of her cousins, to J.A. Fuller Maitland (1856–1936), a music critic and musician.

Maconie

Stuart Maconie (born 1960), English radio DJ, music critic and journalist

Meet the Mets

Sportswriter Leonard Koppett affected the role of classical music critic in 1963 to tweak the song's simplistic composition: “There is little in the score of interest to a mid-20th-century audience. The harmony is traditional; no influences of atonality or polytonality can be found. In fact, it’s sort of un-tonal.”

Milojević

Miloje Milojević (1884-1946), Serbian composer, conductor, pianist, pedagogue, music critic, and musical writer

Phil Spitalny

Phil Spitalny (November 7, 1890, Tetiev, Ukraine (territory of Russian Empire) – October 11, 1970, Miami Beach, Florida) was a musician, music critic, composer and bandleader heard often on radio during the 1930s and 1940s.

Richard McIver

In his 2001 campaign, he defeated music critic, monorail booster and author Grant Cogswell.

Richard Willis

Richard Storrs Willis (1819–1900), American composer, music critic and journal editor

Robert Goldsand

Ivry, Benjamin, A Music Critic Performs, Practices What He Preaches, published in The New York Observer on September 10, 2006

Robert Kapilow

It has since achieved great popularity in the children's theater world, prompting Boston Globe music critic Richard Dyer to name it "the most popular children's piece since Peter and the Wolf".

Roberto García

Roberto García Morillo (1911–2003), Argentine composer, musicologist, and music critic

Sacheverell Sitwell

Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet, CH (15 November 1897 – 1 October 1988) was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic (his books on Mozart, Liszt, and Domenico Scarlatti are still consulted), and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque.

Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton

In his review of the box set, music critic Richie Unterberger called it "Perhaps the most sumptuous, nay incredible, box set package ever devised for a blues artist."

Stanley Sadie

Sadie then turned to music journalism, becoming music critic for The Times (1964–1981), and contributing reviews to the Financial Times after 1981, when he had to leave his position and The Times because of his commitments to the Grove and other scholarly work.

Star's End

Echoes, a nightly ambient music show produced by music critic John Diliberto.

Sviatoslav Richter

In a review, noted Chicago Tribune music critic Claudia Cassidy, who was known for her unkind reviews of established artists, recalled Richter first walking on stage hesitantly, looking vulnerable (as if about to be "devoured"), but then sitting at the piano and dispatching "the performance of a lifetime".

Teach For America

Smokey Fontaine (Baltimore '93), An American writer, music critic and editor

The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music

It is written by Ivan March, a music journalist, consultant and former professional musician; Edward Greenfield, former music critic of The Guardian newspaper and Robert Layton, music writer and lecturer.

The Rite of Spring discography

On the 22 March 2008 broadcast of BBC 3'S CD Review - Building a Library, music critic Rob Cowan surveyed recordings of The Rite of Spring and recommended the 2004 recording by the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Peter Eotvos (conductor) , as the best available choice.

Vallerand

Jean Vallerand (1915–1994), Canadian classical violinist, composer, conductor, music critic, educator and writer

William Lovelock

Meanwhile he supported himself as a free-lance teacher, adjudicator, and as chief music critic for The Courier-Mail in Brisbane.