Mary Ann Feldman
American music critic
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mary Ann Feldman was an American music critic. Born Mary Ann Janisch in St. Paul, Minnesota, Feldman grew up in the Frogtown neighborhood of the city. Her parents were the proprietors of a small restaurant there. She was educated at the University of Minnesota, where she studied journalism and music history and received a BA in 1954. While there she wrote music reviews for the Minnesota Daily under the pseudonym "V. I. Olin". In 1957 she completed her MA in musicology at Columbia University, which she had chosen for the opportunity to study with Paul Henry Lang. In 1983 she received a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, where she took as the subject of her dissertation George Putnam Upton; she had previously taught at the university for a number of years. In 1963 she began to work for the Minnesota Orchestra, where she would spend four decades working in the fields of music advising and public affairs. Among her many roles there, she edited the monthly program books; gave pre-concert lectures; aided in the establishments of the yearly Sommerfest; and assisted in documenting the organization's history. Her program notes were especially well-regarded, being described by one writer as "erudite and witty".
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