Robert Paul Commanday (June 18, 1922 – September 3, 2015) was an American music critic who specialized in classical music. Among the leading critics of...
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poet of Scotland Robert Commanday, American music critic, chief classical music critic of the San Francisco Chronicle (1964–1994) Robert Cormier, American...
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music critics from the late 20th century include Martin Bernheimer, Robert Commanday, Richard Dyer, Michael Kennedy and Michael Steinberg. In the 21st century...
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joined the Marin Symphony Orchestra (1969—2004), and in 1976 married Robert Commanday, a music critic with the San Francisco Chronicle. Stevens was an AFS...
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Davies Hall Marked by Melange of Styles". The New York Times. p. 15C. Robert Commanday (10 September 1992). "Davies Hall Renovation Applauded - Symphony Opens...
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discusses Igor Stravinsky and Charles Ives with Charles Amirkhanian and Robert Commanday, 1971 On Frank Zappa, Slonimsky discusses his relationship with Frank...
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2 April 1889, Neville's mother was Ada Cardus, one of six daughters of Robert and Ann Cardus of 4 Summer Place, Rusholme. On 14 July 1888, when the baby...
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of Beowulf. He had threatened to resign if that happened. The novelist Robert Harris derided this threat as "pompous". Holden was a member of the Board...
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Born in Carfraemill near Lauder in Berwickshire, he was the eldest son of Robert Hogarth, a farmer, and his wife, Mary Hogarth (née Scott). Hogarth studied...
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Robert Alfred Simon (1897 in New York City – 27 April 1981 in New York City) was an American writer, translator, and music critic for The New Yorker from...
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full attention". Subsequently, in 1948 he collaborated with the director Robert J. Flaherty on the docufiction film Louisiana Story, for which he received...
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much of his career. As such, he sided with and promoted the faction of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms in the so-called "War of the Romantics", often...
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"tuneful and harmonious;" and of Shearer’s cantata King Midas, critic Robert Commanday wrote, ‘The singing lines are fluid and supple, animated, alive; the...
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music critics have been associated with it; past presidents include Robert Commanday, Miles Kastendieck, Irving Lowens and Donald Rosenberg, while critics...
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Chorus Tours America 1981 liner notes, 1981, lists quotations from Robert Commanday, San Francisco Chronicle, Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Examiner, and...
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