Richard Morrison | |
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Born | London, England | 24 July 1954
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Richard Duncan Morrison (born 24 July 1954) is an English music critic who specializes in classical music. As chief music critic of The Times since 1992, he "has long been admired for his penetrating cultural column".[1] He also writes for the monthly publication BBC Music Magazine and has previously written for Classical Music, The Listener and (as deputy editor) the Early Music journal. In 2004, he published a history of the London Symphony Orchestra entitled Orchestra: The LSO: A Century of Triumph and Turbulence; Charlotte Higgins of The Guardian described it as "a pungent, immensely readable first book."[1]