Greg Sandow
Greg Sandow(born June 3, 1943) is anAmericanmusic criticandcomposer.
Education
[edit]Sandow is a graduate ofHarvard University,with a bachelor's degree in government.[1]He is also a graduate ofYale University,with a master's degree in composition.[2]
Biography
[edit]For many years, Sandow was best known as a critic, both of classical music and pop. As a critic, Sandow wrote forThe Village Voicein the 1980s. His column was on new classical music, though he also wrote about the mainstream repertory, typically challenging traditional assumptions about its function and its meaning. In recent years his writing has appeared in theNew York Times Book Review,Opera News,and theWall Street Journal,where for a long time he was a regular contributor. In pop music, he became chief pop critic of theLos Angeles Herald-Examinerin 1988, and in 1990 joined the staff ofEntertainment Weekly,which had just begun publication, and where he served first as music critic and then as senior music editor.[2]
During his years as a critic, Sandow abandoned composition, but later resumed it. His works include four operas, one based onFrankenstein,music from which he incorporated into an orchestra piece,A Frankenstein Overture,which has been performed by thePittsburgh Symphony[3]and the South Dakota Symphony.[2]Others who have performed his work include theFine Arts Quartet,the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, and the pianistJenny Lin.
Sandow has made public appearances throughout the United States and also abroad, and has also done consulting work and other special projects with classical music institutions, including theCleveland Orchestra,the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra[3]and theNew York Philharmonic.[4]Since 1997 he has taught at theJuilliard Schoolas a member of the Graduate Studies Faculty, and from 2006 to 2009 also taught at theEastman School of Music,where he gave the commencement address in 2008. He blogs about the future of classical music on the ArtsJournal.com website.[2]
Sandow has also extensively written and researchedunidentified flying objects,[5]notably for theInternational UFO Reporter,a quarterly publication of theCenter for UFO Studies.[6]
Sandow is married toAnne Midgette,herself a former classical music reviewer forThe New York Timesand formerly chief classical music critic forThe Washington Post.[2]Sandow dedicated his "Quartet for Anne" to his wife.[7]They live inWashington, D.C.,andWarwick,New York.[8]They have one child, Rafael Aron Sandow, born October 15, 2011.
References
[edit]- ^Nancy Moran (2 December 1964)."Mozart and Chow Mein: A Day at the Opera".The Harvard Crimson.Retrieved2008-11-21.
- ^abcdeSandow, Greg at The Juilliard School
- ^abAndrew Druckenbrod (20 October 2004)."Music Preview: National critic and PSO aim to involve audience with the music".Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.Retrieved2008-11-21.
- ^Julie Salamon (8 May 2004)."For Classical Concertgoers, Symphonic Play-by-Play".New York Times.Retrieved2008-11-21.
- ^GregSandow's UFO Homepage
- ^Sandow, Greg. 1997.""The Linda Cortile Case Analyzed, Part 2"".Archived from the original on January 24, 1998.Retrieved2017-03-25.
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:CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link).International UFO Reporter,Summer 1997. - ^"Greg Sandow: the concert | WETA".Archived fromthe originalon 2017-12-06.Retrieved2017-12-05.
- ^About Me – GREG SANDOW