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Downes, Edward Olin Davenport was born on August 12, 1911 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Edwin Olin and Marian Amanda (Davenport) Downes.
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critic musicologist radio broadcaster
Downes, Edward Olin Davenport was born on August 12, 1911 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Edwin Olin and Marian Amanda (Davenport) Downes.
Student, Columbia, 1929-1930; student, Manhattan School Music, 1930-1932; student, University Paris, France, 1932-1933; student, University Munich, Germany, 1932, 34-36, 38-39; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard, 1958.
Assistant music critic, New York Post, 1936-1938;
music critic, Boston Evening Transcript, 1939-1941;
commentator, assistant program manager radio station, W67Ny, New York City, 1941-1942;
intelligence analyst and editor, Office of Strategic Services, Department State, also War Department, 1943-1946;
program annotator, lecturer music, Boston Museum Fine Arts, 1946-1950;
lecturer music, Wellesley College, 1948-1949;
professor music history, University of Minnesota, 1950-1955;
assistant music critic, New York Times, 1955-1958;
program annotator, New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society, 1960-1974;
professor music history, Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Center Queens College of CUNY, 1966-1981;
professor music history, New York University, 1981-1986;
quizmaster, Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Network, 1958-1996;
music critic, Interstate Broadcasting Company. New York City, since 1968;
professor music history, Juilliard School Music, New York City, 1986-1994. Guest lecturer Metropolitan Museum Art, 1960-1966, 85.
Lecturer Dialogue Series New York Philharmonic, 1982-1985. Faculty Master Classes Bayreuth (West Germany) Festival, 1959-1965. Intermission host New York Philharmonic Symphony broadcasts, 1964-1966.
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Served with Army of the United States, 1942-1945. Member American Musicol. Society (council 1958-1960, 69-71), International Musicol.
Society, American Music Library. Association, Century Club.
Married Mildred Fowler Gignoux, October 23, 1943 (divorced August 1954).