Eliot Washington Galkin ( born Elliott W. Galkin ; February 22, 1921 , Brooklyn - May 24, 1990 , Baltimore ) - American music critic , conductor and music teacher .
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Biography
At the end of Brooklyn College ( 1943 ) in 1946 - 1949 . studied conducting in Paris (including, privately, with Nadi Boulanger ), and then musicology at Cornell University .
In 1960 , he defended a dissertation there, which he later published in a revised form as a monograph, “ History of Orchestral Conducting in Theory and Practice ; 1988”.
In 1955 - 1956 Internship at the Vienna State Opera .
Since 1957 , he taught at the Peabody Conservatory and conducted by the Conservatory Orchestra, since 1964 he headed the Department of the History of Music. At the same time since 1969 he directed the musical programs of Johns Hopkins University . After the Peabody Conservatory became a division of the university in 1977 , he was its director for five years.
In 1962 - 1977 performed as a music critic in the Baltimore Sun newspaper .
In 1975 - 1977 was president of the American Music Critics Association.