Winthrop Sargeant
Winthrop Sargeant (born December 10, 1903 in San Francisco , † August 15, 1986 in Salisbury / Connecticut ) was an American violinist and music critic .
Sargeant became the youngest member of the San Francisco Symphony in 1922 at the age of eighteen . In 1926 he went to New York, where he first became a member of the New York Symphony and from 1928 the New York Philharmonic .
In 1930 he ended his active music career to devote himself to music criticism and science. From 1937 to 1945 he wrote music reviews for Time Magazine , then until 1949 for Life Magazine . From 1949 to 1972 he wrote the music column for the New Yorker .
He has also written a number of books on music history and theory, including Jazz: Hot and Hybrid (1938), Geniuses, goddesses, and people (1949), Listening to music (1958), Jazz: a history (1964) and Divas (1973) , an autobiography ( In spite of myself: a personal memoir , 1970) and published a translation of the Bhagavad Gita in 1979 .
Publications (excerpt)
- The Bhagavad Gita , Albany: State University of New York Press, 18th edition: 2009
- Listening to music , New York: Dodd, Mead, 8th edition: 1977
- Jazz, hot and hybrid , New York: Da Capo Press, 1975
- Divas , New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 6th edition: 1973
- Geniuses, goddesses, and people , New York: EP Dutton, 5th edition 1970
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- Encyclopaedia Britannica - Winthrop Sargeant
- Foreword to Sargeant's Translation of the Bhagavad Gita , 25th Edition, SUNY Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4384-2841-3 , p. XXIX
- Literature by and about Winthrop Sargeant in the bibliographic database WorldCat
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| SURNAME | Sargeant, Winthrop |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American music critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 15, 1986 |
| Place of death | Salisbury , Connecticut |