Paul Hume (music critic)
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December 13, 1915
- Music critic
- author
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 Paul Hume and Marie Handy performing Gian Carlo Menotti's comic opera The Telephone, or L'Amour à trois at Catholic University, Washington DC, 1952 | |
| Born | Paul Chandler Hume December 13, 1915 Chicago, Illinois |
| Died | November 27, 2001 (aged 85) Baltimore, Maryland |
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Paul Chandler Hume (December 13, 1915 – November 27, 2001) was an American music critic and author who specialized in classical music. He was the music editor for The Washington Post from 1946 to 1982.[1]
Hume was born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 13, 1915. Hume attended the University of Chicago, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1937 after studying music and English.[1]
In addition to his role as the Post music editor, Hume hosted a long-running classical music program on WGMS radio in Washington, D.C., and was guest commentator for the New York Metropolitan Opera intermission broadcasts. He was also a professor of music at Georgetown University from 1950 to 1977 and adjunct professor of music at Yale University from 1975 to 1983. He was a member of the American Association of University Professors, the Music Critics Association of North America, and the Cosmos Club. He received a Peabody Award in 1977 for his outstanding achievement in music criticism, and received honorary degrees from Thiel College, Rosary College, and Georgetown University.[2] In addition, he published several books, including Catholic Church Music (1956), where he refers in passing to himself as a Catholic convert from Protestantism; and a biography of Verdi (1977).
