Tim Smith (journalist)
{{Short description|American music critic}}
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Tim Smith is an American music critic who specializes in classical music. He was chief classical music critic for The Baltimore Sun from 2000–2019.
Life and career
Born in Washington, D.C., he received a B.A. in music history from Eisenhower College and an M. A. in music history from Occidental College, Los Angeles. He was a freelance reviewer for The Washington Star and The Washington Post before becoming classical music critic at the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1981. He joined the staff of The Baltimore Sun in 2000, serving as classical music critic and, starting in 2009, also as theater critic. He retired in November 2019, after a year handling a third beat as restaurant critic, when the paper began limiting performing arts reviews. He currently has a blog called "By Tim Smith."[https://bytimsmith.com/ "By Tim Smith: A sporadic blog by the former arts critic of the Baltimore Sun."]
Smith has also written for The New York Times, Opera News, BBC Music Magazine and other publications.{{cite web|url=http://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/art/music0403.pdf|title=Music:The Quintessential American Sound|publisher=US Embassy|accessdate=May 27, 2010}}
In 1998, he received a first place award from the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors for Excellence in Feature Writing: Arts Criticism.{{cite news|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/columnists/bal-musiccolumn,0,7914338.columnist|title=Tim Smith|newspaper=Baltimore Sun|accessdate=May 27, 2010}}
Smith was elected president of the Music Critics Association of North America in 2005 and served two terms.{{cite web|url=http://www.mcana.org/latestnewsofinterest/latestupdates.html|title=Message from MCANA President Donald Rosenberg|publisher=Music Critics Association of North America|accessdate=May 27, 2010}}
In 2002, Perigee Books published Smith's NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Classical Music.{{cite book|author=Smith, Tim|url=https://archive.org/details/nprcuriouslisten0000smit|url-access=registration|quote=tim smith.|title=NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Classical Music|publisher=Perigee|year=2002|isbn=0-399-52795-8}}Symphony, Volume 53, Issue 6, American Symphony Orchestra League
References
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Category:American male journalists
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Category:Occidental College alumni
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Category:The New York Times journalists
Category:The Washington Post people
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Category:21st-century American male writers