John Rockwell

John Rockwell ( born 1940 in Washington DC) is an American music critic and author.

Life

He studied at Phillips Academy, Harvard, the University of Munich and the University of California, Berkeley, with the completion of a Ph.D. in German-speaking culture. Rockwell began his journalistic career at the Oakland Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. In 1972 he started at the New York Times, first as a critic of European classical music and as a reporter. From 1992 to 1994 he was a correspondent for European culture. From 1994 to 1998 he was director of the Lincoln Center Festival. Then he returned to the New York Times and was editor of the weekend supplement. He left the Times in late 2006 to work freelance. Rockwell lives in Manhattan.

In January 2008 was John Rockwell " Distinguished Visitor " at the American Academy in Berlin. His research at the time about the " socialist project of reform opera " by Kurt Weill.

Works

  • Barrage (1983 ) ISBN 3-87739-549- X
  • All American Music, Knopf (1983 ) ISBN 0-394-51163-8.
  • Sinatra: An American Classic, Random House (1984 ) ISBN 0-394-53977- X.
  • The Idiots, BFI (2003) ISBN 0-85170-955-9.
  • Outsider: John Rockwell on the Arts, Limelight (2006) ISBN 0-87910-333-7
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