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American musicologist
Edward Benjamin Rothstein
(born October 16, 1952) is an American critic. Rothstein wrote music criticism early in his career, but is best known for his critical analysis of museums and museum exhibitions.
Rothstein holds a
B.A.
from
Yale University
(1973), an
M.A.
in English literature from
Columbia University
, and a
Ph.D.
from the
Committee on Social Thought
at the
University of Chicago
(1994). In addition, Rothstein did graduate work in mathematics at
Brandeis University
. He was at
The New York Times
for a long time, but he took a buyout (a cash payout offered to employees, with compensation based on a sliding scale of the number of years they spent working for the employer
[1]
) from the newspaper and joined
The Wall Street Journal
. He wrote in 2020 that "At
The New York Times
, freedom of speech gave way to group pressure, and debate turned into intimidation".
[2]
Rothstein was the cultural critic-at-large for
The New York Times
,
[3]
particularly examining the reach and depth of museums, large and small, one by one. He has worked as a
music critic
for
The New Republic
and as the
chief music critic
for the
Times
. He worked briefly as an editor at MacMillan's The Free Press in the mid-1980s.
Rothstein is a two-time winner of the
ASCAP
Deems Taylor Award
for music criticism, and was given a
Guggenheim Fellowship
in 1991.
Writings
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- Archive of Rothstein's
The Wall Street Journal
articles
- Archive of Rothstein's
The New York Times
articles
- Archive of Rothstein's tech columns in
The New York Times
- "Mozart: In Search of the Roots of Genius"
,
Smithsonian
, February, 2006.
- "Contemplating Churchill"
,
Smithsonian
, March, 2005.
- Visions of Utopia
(New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities), with
Herbert Muschamp
and
Martin E. Marty
(Oxford University Press, 2004)
ISBN
0-19-517161-6
.
- 1998 Diary
in
Slate
- Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics
(
Times Books
, 1995;
University of Chicago Press, 2006
).
- Foreword to
Arthur Loesser
's
Men, Women and Pianos: A Social History
(1991).
- Archive of Rothstein's essays 1979-90
in
The New York Review of Books
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