America’s leading concert annotator has died

America’s leading concert annotator has died

RIP

norman lebrecht

January 04, 2022

We hear from his family that Richard Freed has died in the week that he turned 93.

A kindly man, Richard was executive director of the Music Critics Association of North America from 1974 to 1990 and a contributing editor of Stereo Review.

He was probably the country’s most prolific writer of program notes, serving the orchestras of St. Louis, Baltimore, Houston, Philadelphia and Washington DC. He was also consultant to the music director of the National Symphony Orchestra when that post was held by Mstislav Rostropovich (pictured) and Leonard Slatkin.

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