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 a Ph.D. in German-speaking culture. Rockwell began his journalistic career with the Oakland Tribune and the Los Angeles Times . He joined the New York Times in 1972 , first as a critic for classical European 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 . He then returned to the New York Times and became editor of the weekend supplement. He left the Times in late 2006 to work as a freelancer. Rockwell lives in Manhattan .
In January 2008 John Rockwell was a “Distinguished Visitor” at the American Academy in Berlin . He is currently researching Kurt Weill's “socialist project of opera reform” .
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
Web links
- Radio: Rockwell Matters.
- Literature by and about John Rockwell in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rockwell, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American music critic and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington, DC |