Dictionary of Music - Grand Format

TIM RUTHERFORD-JOHNSON has worked for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians since 1999 and from 2000 to 2008 was the editor responsible for the dictionary's coverage of 20th and 21st century music. He has published and lectured on several contemporary composers, and regularly reviews new music for both print and online publications. MICHAEL KENNEDY was chief music critic of The Sunday Telegraph from 1989 to 2005.
Before that he was a staff music critic on The Sunday Telegraph from 1950 and its Northern Editor from 1960 to 1986. He was an authority on English music of the 20th century and wrote books on Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten, and Walton as well as on Mahler, Strauss, Barbirofi, Boult, and the Hailé Orchestra. He was awarded the OBE in 1981 and the CBE in 1997. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, from 1971 to 2006.
The honorary degree of Doctor of Music was conferred on him in 2003 by the University of Manchester and he became an honorary member of the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2005. JOYCE BOURNE KENNEDY practised for almost 30 years as an anaesthetist and general practitioner until her retirement in 1990. She has a lifelong interest in and love of music. She is married to Michael Kennedy and has assisted him with his works since 1978.
Her book Who's Who in Opera was published in 1998.