Alan Rich
Alan Rich( June 17, 1924 – April 23, 2010) was an American music critic who served on the staff of many newspapers and magazines on both coasts.
Originally from Brookline, Massachusetts, he first studied medicine at Harvard University before turning to music.
While a student at Harvard he began his career as critic, working as assistant music critic at the" Boston Herald".
He was music director of KPFA, the Berkeley radio station, and successively a music critic for publications including" The New York Times", the" New York Herald TribuneNew York" magazine," NewsweekCalifornia" magazine, the" Los Angeles Herald- Examiner Opera News", and from 1992 to 2008" LA Weekly" magazine.
He subsequently worked briefly as music critic for Bloomberg News.
Rich also wrote a number of books including" Music, Mirror of the Arts"( 1969) and" So I've Heard: Notes of a Migratory Music Critic", published in 2006.
In 1990, Rich authored an innovative CD- ROM exploring Schubert's" Trout Quintet".
Published by The Voyager Company, and produced by composer David Javelosa.
Michael Kennedy (director)
Michael Kennedy( born 1954) is a Canadian film and television director, writer, actor and cinematographer born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Richard Aldrich (music critic)
Richard Aldrich( July 31, 1863 – June 2, 1937) was an American music critic.
From 1902 – 23, he was music critic for" The New York Times".
Michael Kennedy (music critic)
George Michael Sinclair Kennedy CBE( 19 February 1926 – 31 December 2014) was an English biographer, journalist and writer on classical music.
Kennedy was born in Chorlton- cum- Hardy, Manchester, and attended Berkhamsted School.
On 17 November 1941, he joined the Manchester office of" Daily Telegraph" at age 15, as a tea boy.
In his youth, Kennedy auditioned for a role in the musical The Music Man as a member of the school board, but was passed over for the role.
This led to his future distaste for the barbershop style later in life, as he noted in the" Oxford Dictionary of Music".
Following service in the Royal Navy, he returned to the" Telegraph" as an assistant to the night editor.
He began writing music criticism for the paper in 1948, and became staff music critic in 1950.
He served as chief sub-editor, and later Northern Editor of the" Telegraph" from 1960 to 1986, joint chief music critic from 1986 to 2005, and chief music critic of" The Sunday Telegraph" from 1989 to 2005.
He was on the Board of Governors of the Royal Northern College of Music from 1971 to 2006.
As a writer, Kennedy had particular interests in late Romantic music and the history of music- making in Manchester since the 19th century.
He was particularly known for acute and sympathetic studies of the works of Ralph Vaughan Williams( who was during his last years a close friend), Edward Elgar, Benjamin Britten, Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss.
Kennedy wrote biographies of Vaughan Williams, William Walton, and of John Barbirolli, with authorisation from the composers themselves and the Barbirolli family, respectively.
He is also noted for writing" The Oxford Dictionary of Music", which he did whilst serving as Northern Editor of the" Telegraph".
Its second edition was published in 1994.
Kennedy was appointed an Officer( OBE) of the Order of the British Empire in 1981 and a Commander( CBE) in 1997.
He received an honorary doctorate degree in music from Manchester University in 2003.
In 2005, he was elected an honorary member of the Royal Philharmonic Society.
Kennedy was married twice.
His first wife was Eslyn Durdle, who suffered from multiple sclerosis for approximately fifty years.
Their marriage lasted from 1947 until her death in 1999.
His second wife was Joyce Bourne, a physician whom Kennedy had met in 1976.
Eslyn accepted Joyce, and only asked that he continue to look after her.
He did so for 23 more years, marrying Joyce only after Eslyn's death in 1999.
Bourne and Kennedy married in 1999, after the death of Eslyn.
Their own marriage lasted until Kennedy's death.
Bourne served as Kennedy's associate editor for his various editions of" The Oxford Dictionary of Music".
She survives him.
Mary Knowlton von Francken-Sierstorpff
Countess Mary Carpenter Knowlton von Francken- Sierstorpff( July 2, 1870 – July 21, 1929) was an American socialite who married a German Count.
David Kane (pianist)
David Kane is an American pianist, composer, arranger, and music critic.
Anne Midgette
Anne Midgette is an American journalist and classical music critic.
Keith White (publisher)
Keith White( born 1965) is an American publishing executive and cultural critic and a co-founder of" The Baffler".
His writings, which have been influenced by his training as a literary critic, have focused on the intersection between culture and the publishing business.
He was the publisher at" Congressional Quarterly".
Michael Kennedy Ryan
Canon Michael Kennedy Ryan (4 October 1867 – 3 April 1925) was an Irish Catholic priest, teacher and supporter of the Gaelic Athletic Association.
Michael K. Kennedy
Michael K. Kennedy( born October 30, 1939) was an American politician in the state of Iowa.
Kennedy was born in New Hampton, Iowa.
He was a lawyer.
He served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1969 to 1973 as a Democrat.

Question: Do Michael Kennedy (music critic) and Mary Knowlton von Francken-Sierstorpff have the same nationality?
Answer: no