Background
Steinberg, Michael was born on October 4, 1928 in Breslau, Germany. Came to United States, 1943, naturalized, 1950. Son of Siegfried and Margarethe (Cohn) Steinberg.
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Steinberg, Michael was born on October 4, 1928 in Breslau, Germany. Came to United States, 1943, naturalized, 1950. Son of Siegfried and Margarethe (Cohn) Steinberg.
AB, Princeton University, 1949. Master of Fine Arts, Princeton University, 1951. Museum D. (honorary), New England Conservatory Music, 1966.
Born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), Steinberg left Germany in 1939 as one of the Kindertransport child refugees and spent four years in England. After Princeton, he lived two years in Italy on a Fulbright scholarship, followed by a two-year stint in Germany with the United States. Army. Steinberg taught at several colleges in New York and Massachusetts before he became music critic for the Boston Globe in 1964.
His time with the Globe was not without controversy.
While Steinberg was lauded for his writing, the high standards by which he gauged the performances he reviewed caused friction with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. At one time, the orchestra"s members voted to ban Steinberg from attending its concerts.
However, after almost 12 years with the Globe, he became program annotator for this orchestra. In 1979, he worked as publications director and artistic advisor for the San Francisco Symphony.
He stayed until 1989.
He was program annotator for a number of other orchestras during his career, including the New York Philharmonic and the Minnesota Orchestra, the latter of which he served as artistic advisor during the 1990s. In a 1995 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Steinberg said he saw his role as a critic and annotator as someone "building bridges and helping to create contact between listeners—nonprofessional listeners for the most part—and music"
Steinberg died in Edina, Minnesota, at the age of 80.
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Once this posting ended, he became a faculty member of the Manhattan School of Music, where he taught music history.
Married Jane Bonacker, July 26, 1953 (divorced 1983). Children: Peter Sebastian, Adam Gregory. Married Jorja Fleezanis, July, 1983.