Alan Rich

Remembering Alan Rich, Dean of American Music Critics

Alan Rich, 1924-2010: Dean of American Music Critics

​It wasn't just by dint of his incredibly long career in music that Alan Rich deserved the title Dean of American Music Critics. When he passed away on April 23 at the age of 86, he left behind a cultural legacy that owed as much to his enormous depth of experience as to his razorlike gift for ... More >>

Former LA Weekly Classical Music Critic Alan Rich Dies

​Former LA Weekly classical music critic Alan Rich died Friday, apparently of natural causes, the Orange County Register reports. LAObserved reported on the writer's death earlier. Rich's age would have been about 86. Via Twitter, the Weekly's Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer Jonathan Gold ... More >>

Alan Rich Remembers Legendary Music Patron Betty Freeman

On his great So I've Heard blog, Alan Rich remembers longtime LA patron of the arts Betty Freeman, who died in her home on Sunday. Freeman supported some of the 20th Century's most progressive composers, from John Cage to Lou Harrison to Phillip Glass and John Adams.(Betty Freeman, in a still from a ... More >>

Harold's Office

Six words, and a memo to remember

So I Keep Hearing

From Bernstein to Dudamel

Part 1: Thoughts on Music Now. (The festival that is. You'll have to wait for my multi-volume treatise on the state of music today.)

The rise of classically informed indie music, one awesome photograph of MC 62 Foot Jesus, and my thoughts on "conflict of interest" in music criticism today. ALSO, a member of Grizzly Bear getting crunk in a Cincinnati, OH parking lot. It's kind of like US Weekly for obscure people.

"Justice" Unbecoming

Fourth Estate as watchdog; Alan Rich, one of a kind; Gettys our royals?

When the Going Was Good

Remembering Pavarotti

April 20, 2007

Remembering Pavarotti

April 13, 2007

¡Mas Suave! They’re handsome, charming and so good to their mothers. They’re Mexican American Princes, and they rule Los Angeles. By DANIEL HERNANDEZ

April 6, 2007

To Play or Not to Play: Tales of glory and folly on local stages by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS and STEVEN MIKULAN

Feb. 23. 2007

The Town the Law Forgot by JEFFREY ANDERSON. No Peace in the Valley by STEVEN MIKULAN. Li'l Dickens Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Make Love to the Vice President by JERRY STAHL

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s political satire at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Feb. 9, 2007

L.A.’s 20 Best Italian Restaurants by Jonathan Gold, Separated at Birth by Steven Leigh Morris and The Bastard Question by Ernest Hardy

Feb. 2, 2007

Moz the Cat by Kate Sullivan and Chest of Lies by Joshuah Bearman

Bowling with the Dean

A night at the opera with Alan Rich

The 20th Century and Me: Beginnings

Excerpted from So I’ve Heard: Notes From a Migratory Music Critic

Tickling the Binaries

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Out of the Past

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Apocalypse Tuesday

Covering the new world disorder

Experiencing Disney Hall

Covering the new world disorder

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Covering the new world disorder

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Covering the new world disorder

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Covering the new world disorder

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Covering the new world disorder

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Covering the new world disorder

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Covering the new world disorder

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Covering the new world disorder

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Covering the new world disorder

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Covering the new world disorder

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Covering the new world disorder

Super Furry Sound

A year in music

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A year in music

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A year in music

And the LAWMA Goes to . . .

A year in music

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A year in music

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A year in music

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Dating Yourself

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...Marc Haefele's negativity seems inspired more by a poor reporter's attachment to controversy than by an honest look at the issues....