Alan Rich obituary

US critic and champion of new composersIn the US, support for promising new composers and performers has always been thin on the ground. Alan Rich, who has died aged 85, was one of the small band of music reviewers engaged not merely in pontificating, but in working behind the scenes to remedy this lack. Invited by Nicolas Slonimsky to write his own entry in Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Alan described himself as "having an uncommonly bellicose disposition tempered by prejudice t...

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