Allan Kozinn

{{Short description|American journalist, music critic, and teacher}}

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Allan Kozinn (born July 28, 1954)[https://www.facebook.com/MuseEarlyMusic/posts/207565756039168 Kozinn's posting] on Facebook is an American journalist, music critic, and teacher.

Kozinn received bachelor's degrees in music and journalism from Syracuse University in 1976.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/04/style/allan-kozinn-is-married-to-johanna-beale-keller.html |title=Allan Kozinn Is Married to Johanna Beale Keller |work=The New York Times |date=1988-09-04 |access-date=2015-01-11}} He began freelancing as a critic and music feature writer for The New York Times in 1977, and joined the paper's staff in 1991.[http://us.macmillan.com/books/9780805070705 The New York Times Essential Library: Classical Music – A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings], "About the author", Macmillan Publishers Before joining the Times, he was a contributing editor to High Fidelity and Keynote magazines, and a frequent contributor to Guitar Player, Keyboard, Pulse and other publications. He was also the first music critic for The New York Observer.

Kozinn has written a number of books, including Guitar: The History, the Music, the Players (1984), Mischa Elman and the Romantic Style (1990), The Beatles (1995), Classical Music: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings (2004), Got That Something: How the Beatles' I Want to Hold Your Hand Changed Everything (2014) and Spoleto 40 - Spoleto Festival USA 40 Years (2016). In 2014, Kozinn began working with researcher Adrian Sinclair on The McCartney Legacy, a multi-volume biography of Paul McCartney. Volume 1 was published in December 2022.{{cite news |last1=Miller |first1=Stuart |title=With a little help from his friends, Paul McCartney gets a big post-Beatles biography |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-12-12/with-a-little-help-from-his-friends-paul-mccartney-gets-a-big-post-beatles-biography |access-date=13 December 2022 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=12 December 2022}}

Kozinn joined the faculty of New York University in 2004, where he taught courses in music criticism, Baroque music literature and the Beatles through 2014. He also taught a course in the history of musical interpretation at the Juilliard School.

In September 2012, The New York Times reassigned Kozinn from his former duties as a classical music critic to general cultural reporting, which caused controversy at the time.{{cite web |author=David Stabler |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/performance/index.ssf/2012/09/new_york_times_causes_outcry_f.html |title=The New York Times causes outcry for reassigning music critic Allan Kozinn |work=Oregonian |date=2012-09-04 |access-date=2015-01-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120908003655/http://www.oregonlive.com/performance/index.ssf/2012/09/new_york_times_causes_outcry_f.html |archive-date=September 8, 2012}} In December 2014, Kozinn left the Times, as part of a round of layoffs and buyouts at the newspaper.{{cite web |author=Susan Elliott |url=http://www.musicalamerica.com/news/newsstory.cfm?storyid=33088&categoryid=2&archived=0 |title=NYTimes Loses Key Critic and Reporter |work=Musical America |date=2014-12-18 |access-date=2015-01-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231074754/http://www.musicalamerica.com/news/newsstory.cfm?storyid=33088&categoryid=2&archived=0|archive-date=December 31, 2014}} He moved to Portland, Maine, in 2015, and was the classical music critic at the Portland Press Herald from 2015 to 2020,{{cite web |author=Allan Kozinn |url=http://www.pressherald.com/2015/08/30/music-critic-allan-kozinn-finds-a-home-in-portland/ |title=Music critic Allan Kozinn finds a home in Portland |work=Portland Press Herald |date=2015-08-30 |access-date=2016-03-10}} and a freelance critic for the Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He is currently a co-host of the video podcast Things We Said Today - A Beatles Video Podcast.{{Cite web |title=Things We Said Today - A Beatles radio show |url=https://www.youtube.com/@thingswesaidtoday-abeatles9321 |access-date=2024-09-13 |website=YouTube |language=en}}

Kozinn is married to the writer Paula Brochu.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/fashion/weddings/paula-brochu-allan-kozinn.html |title=Paula Brochu, Allan Kozinn |work=The New York Times |date=2013-06-23 |access-date=2015-01-11}} The couple resides in Portland, Maine.