Sep 21, 2020
Anne Midgette was for 11 years the classical music critic of
The Washington Post, where she expanded her beat with a
strong social-media presence and became known for her work on
#MeToo. Before the Post, she spent seven years as a regular
contributor of classical music and theater reviews to the New
York Times, having earned the dubious distinction of becoming
the first woman to review classical music regularly for that paper
in 2001. She has also written frequently for The Wall Street
Journal, Opera News, The Los Angeles Times,
Town & Country, and many other publications. A
graduate of Yale University, she started her career as a
journalist during the 11 years she lived in Germany, where she
wrote about the visual arts, opera, film, and dance, worked as a
translator, edited a monthly magazine, and wrote several travel
guidebooks. The co-author of The King and I, a candid book
about Luciano Pavarotti written with his long-time manager, Herbert
Breslin (2004), and of My Nine Lives, the memoir of the
pianist Leon Fleisher (2010), she is currently working on a
historical novel about the woman who built pianos for
Beethoven.
In this talk Anne Midgette generously shares the vivid experience
of the responsibilities of being a critic, and her thoughts about
the current state of classical music in the light of the pandemic
and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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