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- Steinberg spent two years in Italy on a Fulbright scholarship. After he returned, he was drafted into the U.S. Army and stationed in Germany in the 1950s. Later, he became department head of music history at the Manhattan School of Music, taught at various universities, and in 1964 was appointed the music critic of The Boston Globe.
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Steinberg taught at several colleges in New York and Massachusetts before he became music critic for the Boston Globe in 1964. His time with the Globe was not without controversy. While Steinberg was lauded for his writing, the high standards by which he gauged the performances he reviewed caused friction with the Boston Symphony Orchestra .
In America, he studied at Princeton under Oliver Strunk, Edward Cone and Milton Babbitt and took a degree in musicology, then taught music history at various east coast colleges before joining the Boston Globe, where he became notorious as a feared and fearless critic, attacking sacred cows (Charles Munch's revered interpretation of Berlioz's ...
Jul 26, 2009 · After immigrating to the U.S., he trained as a musicologist. In 1964, he became music critic of the Boston Globe. He was revered -- and feared -- in Boston.
- Mark Swed
- Classical Music Critic
- mark.swed@latimes.com
Michael Steinberg, an influential classical music critic, teacher, lecturer and author, and the pre-eminent program annotator of his day, died on Sunday in Edina, Minn., outside Minneapolis,...
In a 1995 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Steinberg said he saw his role as a critic and annotator as someone "building bridges and helping to create contact between listeners - nonprofessional listeners for the most part - and music."
Carl Michael Alfred Steinberg (4 October 1928 – 26 July 2009) was an American music critic and author who specialized in classical music. [1] He was best known, according to San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joshua Kosman , for "the illuminating, witty and often deeply personal notes he wrote for the San Francisco Symphony's program ...
Jul 27, 2009 · During these years, he was appointed music critic at the Boston Globe; his tenure in that position is the stuff of legend among serious writers about music. Steinberg's first staff position at a major orchestra was Director of Publications for the Boston Symphony (1976-79).
