Alan Rich (born 1924, in Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American music critic who currently writes for Bloomberg News. He first studied medicine at Harvard before turning to music.
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 Tribune, New York magazine, Newsweek, California magazine, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, and, from 1992 - April 23, 2008[1] , for LA Weekly magazine.
Rich has also written a number of books including So I've Heard: Notes of a Migratory Music Critic, published in 2006.
He lives in Los Angeles.
References
- ^ Alan Rich. "Alan Rich's last column for LA Weekly". LA Weekly. http://www.laweekly.com/stage/a-lot-of-night-music/parting-shots/18764/. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
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