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   Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 15:57:31 -0700
   Chicago Sun-Times Drops Music Staff Post
   By Susan Elliott
   MusicalAmerica.com
   May 30, 2006

   Wynne Delacoma, staff music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times,
   is to retire next month, following Daniel Barenboim's final
   concert as music director of the Chicago Symphony, on June 17.
   The Sun-Times will eliminate her position altogether and use
   only free-lance writers.  Delacoma's career with the Sun-Times
   began in 1982, as a free-lance writer.  She joined the staff
   full time in 1990, first as a features writer and, in 1991, as
   classical music critic.  An adjunct faculty member at Northwestern
   University's Medill School of Journalism, where she teaches a
   graduate course in arts reporting and criticism, Delacoma was
   the dance and backup music critic for the Milwaukee Journal from
   1980-82, before it merged with the Milwaukee Sentinel.

   The Chicago native holds a master's degree in music history and
   literature from Northwestern University, and a BS in journalism
   from Milwaukee's Marquette University.  Delacoma will remain in
   Chicago, where she will continue to teach and, she says, remain
   active in the classical music field.

   She says she did not consider that her position might not be
   filled when she took an early retirement buyout offer.  Her
   husband will remain with the newspaper, where he is a sports
   copy editor.

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