Allan Kozinn

Allan Kozinn (* 1954 in New York City ) is an American journalist and music critic . The focus of his work is classical music and the Beatles .

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Allan Kozinn is the son of the lawyer Richard M. Kozinn and his wife Phyllis A. Kozinn. He graduated from Syracuse University , New York , with a degree in music and journalism in 1976 . From 1977 he wrote freelance for The New York Times . He was also the editor of the music magazines High Fidelity , Opus and Keynote and music critic for The New York Observer . From 1991 he was a permanent employee of the New York Times, for which he wrote over 7,000 articles by 2014. He also taught at the Juilliard School and, from 2004, at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, music criticism, literature of baroque music and on the subject of "The Beatles".

In 2012 he was hired by the New York Times to do general cultural coverage . However, the related tasks were not satisfactory for him, so he quit his job at the New York Times in 2014.

Allan Kozinn has lived in Portland , Maine since 2015 and works for the Portland Press Herald. He has been married to Paula Kozinn, born in 2013, in his fourth marriage. Brochu.

Fonts

• The Guitar: The History, the Players, the Music. Morrow, New York 1984, ISBN 0-688-01972-2 .
• Mischa Elman and the Romantic Style. Harwood, Chur et al. a. 1990, ISBN 3-7186-0497-3 .
• The Beatles . Phaidon, London 1995, ISBN 0-7148-3203-0 . New edition: The Beatles. From the Cavern to the Rooftop. Phaidon, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-0-7148-5946-0 .
• The New York Times Essential Library: Classical Music. A critic's guide to the 100 most important recordings. Holt, New York 2004, ISBN 978-0-8050-7070-5 .

literature

• Samuel Barber Interviewed by Allan Kozinn (1979). In: Peter Dickinson (ed.): Samuel Barber Remembered. A Centenary Tribute. University of Rochester Press, Rochester 2010, ISBN 978-1-58046-350-8 , p. 45 ( Google books )

Web links

• Music critic Allan Kozinn finds a home in Portland on pressherald.com, Aug 30, 2015.
• Article by Allan Kozinn in the New York Times (2014)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Paula Brochu, Allan Kozinn. In: The New York Times. June 23, 2013
2. ↑ Allan Kozinn, Longtime New York Times Music Critic, Is Reassigned to thewrap.com September 4, 2012