Michael Steinberg
   1928-2009

   *Michael Steinberg*, among the pre-eminent music critics
   of our time, died on Sunday, 26 July 2009 at the age of 80.
   Despite the onset of cancer more than three years ago, he
   continued to live a full and vigorous life.  He was revered
   by professional colleagues - the musicians, conductors,
   fellow writers, composers, educators, and orchestra executives
   with whom he collaborated over the course of a six-decade
   career - and loved by hundreds of thousands of audience
   members whose ideas and feelings about music were shaped
   by the unerringly lucid and insightful commentary he provided
   in program notes and pre-concert talks.  A teacher of music
   history and criticism, a chamber music coach, a narrator,
   he was also the premier writer of program notes for audiences
   of orchestral, choral and chamber music, his works appearing
   not only in symphonic program books, but also on recordings,
   most notably those of John Adams's operas /Nixon in
   China/ (1988) and /The Death of Klinghoffer/ (1992).

Read more about this at:

   http://www.classical.net/news/2009/07/michael-steinberg-dead-at-80.php

Janos Gereben
www.sfcv.org
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