Richard Morrison (music critic)

Richard Morrison is an English music critic. As the chief music critic of The Times, he writes a wide-ranging cultural column which appears on Fridays. He also writes for the monthly publication BBC Music Magazine for which he won an award as columnist of the year.[1]

Morrison studied music at Cambridge University. While he is better known as a writer than a performer, he continues to perform music despite cycling injuries.[2] He is organist of St Mary's, Hendon, a church in the London suburbs.[3]

In 2014 he was one of a number of British critics accused of sexism in respect of their reviews of the mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught, who was singing the title role in a new production of Der Rosenkavalier.[4] Morrison, who described Erraught's portrayal of Octavian as "unsightly and unappealing,” apologized by saying, “Several musicians I count as close friends tell me that what I wrote would have upset greatly the promising young singer who took the role of Octavian. I regret that.”

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Consumer Media (2012), Professional Publishers Association (PPA).
  2. ↑ Morrison, Richard (2012). The day I got back on my bike, The Times
  3. ↑ Humphreys, Garry (2008). ‘Rhosymedre’ as you’ve never heard it before, Church Times.
  4. ↑ 'Don't listen to them': Dame Kiri Te Kanawa supports rising opera star dubbed 'dumpy' 'unsightly' and 'a chubby bundle of puppy fat' by male critics
  5. ↑ Higgins, Charlotte (2004). One hundred years of attitude


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 6/1/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.