From 1850 onwards he became well known as a critic and essay-writer, and in 1860 he began working on his magnum opus, his History of Music, which was published at intervals from 1862 in five volumes, the last two ( 1878, 1882 ) being edited and completed by Otto Kade and Wilhelm Langhans.

In 1928 the music critic Andre Coeuroy, wrote in the Panorama of Contemporary Music that " perhaps the time is not far off when a composer will be able to represent through recording, music specifically composed for the gramophone " ( Coeuroy 1928, 162 ).

Music critic Dave Marsh also wrote that these compositions " define a world unto themselves more completely than any other body of work in pop music ".

Until his death in 1969, twenty years after his return, Adorno contributed to the intellectual foundations of the Federal Republic, as a professor at Frankfurt University, critic of the vogue enjoyed by Heideggerian philosophy, partisan of critical sociology and teacher of music at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music.

Music critic Jon Savage asserted that Britpop was " an outer-suburban, middle-class fantasy of central London streetlife, with exclusively metropolitan models.

Music critic Jon Savage pinpointed Be Here Now as the moment where Britpop ended ; Savage said that while the album " isn't the great disaster that everybody says ," he noted that " t was supposed to be the big, big triumphal record " of the period.

* Wilfrid Mellers, Music critic and composer

Music critic Will Friedwald has written that Louis Armstrong's scatting, for example, " has tapped into his own core of emotion ", releasing emotions " so deep, so real " that they are unspeakable ; his words " bypass our ears and our brains and go directly for our hearts and souls ".

Music critic Simon Reynolds said in 1992 that " there's a feeling of burnout in the culture at large.

Music critic J. D. Considine wrote of the band:

On 11 October 2011, English singer-songwriter, Kate Bush, released, as a single from her album, " 50 Words for Snow ," the critically acclaimed and evocative, seven minute song, " Wild Man ," described by New Music Express music critic, Priya Elan, as having lyrics " full of geographical intrigue and century old myth.

Music critic Harold C. Schonberg in The Great Conductors ( 1967 ), says that while Strauss was a very fine conductor, he often put scant effort into his recordings.

Music critic and composer Deems Taylor acts as the film's Master of Ceremonies, who introduces each segment in live action interstitial scenes.

Music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic said, " It was inevitable that the constant grind of touring, writing, promoting, and recording would grate on the Beatles ," leading to the inclusion of several cover versions after the all-original A Hard Day's Night ; the band's visible weariness on the album's cover is noted by narrator Malcolm McDowell during The Compleat Beatles.

Music critic Alan Blyth said " Her voice was a rich, vibrant contralto of intrinsic beauty.

" Indeed, in 1998, after researching the Pulitzer Prize for Music, music critic Kyle Gann wrote that the awards panel often included " the same seven names over and over as judges ": Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, Jacob Druckman ( now deceased ), George Perle, John Harbison, Mario Davidovsky, and Bernard Rands.

Music critic Jeff Bond writes, " The final result was one of the most unusual Star Trek movie themes ," consisting of a six-note theme and variations set against a repetitious four-note brass motif ; the theme's bridge borrows content from Rosenman's " Frodo March " for The Lord of the Rings.

Music critic –

Music critic Greg Tate described it as Funkadelic's A Love Supreme.

Music critic Otakar Hostinský believed that Wagner's theories should be the basis of the national opera, and argued that Dalibor was the beginning of the " correct " direction.

Music critic Piero Scaruffi includes Adrenaline at number 33, just after Deicide's self-titled album and before Judas Priest's Sad Wings of Destiny, in his classification of the best metal albums of all times.

In 1995, composer and critic Kyle Gann published a full-length study of Nancarrow's output, The Music of Conlon Nancarrow ( Cambridge University Press, 1995, 303 pp .).

Following the publication of his book The State of Music he established himself in New York City as a peer of Aaron Copland and was also a music critic for the New York Herald-Tribune from 1940 through 1954.

Music critic John Rockwell said, " Ives's voice ... had the sheen and finesse of opera without its latter-day Puccinian vulgarities and without the pretensions of operatic ritual.

Charles has also chosen music as a guest of other broadcasters such as Ken Bruce on Radio 2 and Liz Kershaw on 6 Music.

* Ken Nelson, Country Music Hall of Fame member

Fame came with Jackson's starring role in the controversial Women in Love ( 1969 ) for which she won her first Academy Award for Best Actress, and another controversial role as Tchaikovsky's nymphomaniac wife in Ken Russell's The Music Lovers added to her image of being prepared to do almost anything for her art.

He joined other members of the cast for a recording of " Jingle Bells " with vocals by Country Music Hall of Fame members Little Jimmy Dickens, Kitty Wells, Pee Wee King, and The Marksmen Quartet, Bobby Wright, Johnnie Wright and Ken Holloway.

Some of his early television work was in collaboration with Ken Russell, for whom he wrote the biographical dramas The Debussy Film ( 1965 ) and Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World ( 1967 ), as well as Russell's film about Tchaikovsky, The Music Lovers ( 1970 ).

* The Music Lovers ( 1970 ) ( directed by Ken Russell )

He is also a presenter of Friday Night is Music Night, and has also been a regular stand-in presenter for Sarah Kennedy and Ken Bruce on Radio 2.

The Music Lovers is a 1970 British biographical film directed by Ken Russell.

The film's title card reads Ken Russell's Film on Tchaikovsky and The Music Lovers in order to differentiate it from Tchaikovsky, a Russian film released the previous year.

He then appeared in Ken Russell's The Music Lovers ( 1970 ), Barney Platts-Mills's Private Road ( 1971 ), and François Truffaut's The Story of Adele H. ( 1975 ), but eventually became disenchanted with acting after spending several years out of work and living on social security payments and began writing screenplays.

Popular network announcers and the programs they hosted included Jon Arthur ( The Quiet Hours, Big Jon & Sparky, Radio Reading Circle ); Omar Andeel ( The Morning Clock ); Harold Hall ( The Christian Home ); Ken Boone ( Music to Live By ); Bob Swenson ( Transition ); and Jerry Edinger ( Nightwatch ).

* Jazz: A History of America ’ s Music, ( with Ken Burns ) Alfred A. Knopf, 2000

*-Information about a tribute show held on honor of the late Ken Hamilton, Music Director of KFJC, who died in a tragic auto accident on December 22, 2000

* Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films ( 1988 ) features performances of songs from Walt Disney movies by a large cast of artists ranging from Sun Ra to Michael Stipe, Ringo Starr, Yma Sumac and Ken Nordine

Electric Honey, founded in 1992, is Stow College's ( Glasgow, Scotland ) in-house record label run by Ken McCluskey ( The Bluebells ), Douglas MacIntyre ( Creeping Bent ) and formerly Alan Rankine ( The Associates ) along with students from the HNC / D Music Business course.

However, by the time Make Mine Music was released Clair de Lune was replaced by the new song Blue Bayou, performed by the Ken Darby Singers.

He appeared in a number of television and film productions directed by Ken Russell, including the BBC films Song of Summer ( 1968 ) and The Dance of the Seven Veils ( 1970 ), The Music Lovers ( 1970 ), an adaptation of The Boy Friend ( 1971 ), and The Rainbow ( 1989 ).

* 2003: Wake the Nations, Ken Tamplin, Song Haus Music

* Ken Cowan, Coordinator of Organ and Sacred Music, Professor since 2003

Manchester and appeared with Ken Dodd in the TV series, Doddy's Music Box, acquiring the nickname, ' Diddy '.

* ConGen: New Dramatic Electronic Music ( with Gen Ken Montgomery )

Ken Scott continues to be active in the studio, gives talks around the world, and has recently written a memoir entitled Abbey Road To Ziggy Stardust ( co-written with Bobby Owsinski and published by Alfred Music Publishing ).

He also appeared in The Deadly Affair ( 1966 ), and in several Ken Russell films: The Music Lovers ( 1970 ; as Anton Rubinstein ), The Boy Friend ( 1971 ) and The Devils ( 1971 ).

1982-with Dembo Konte & Malamini Jobarteh, Kora Music and Songs from The Gambia, recorded / produced Ken Day & Lucy Duran, 1982, Virgin Records