Donald Vroon

Donald Vroon is an American music critic and the editor of American Record Guide,^[1] a bi-monthly magazine containing reviews of classical music events, compact discs, DVDs, and books related to classical music as well as a section on classical musicians and groups.

Vroon, the son of immigrants, grew up in New York listening only to classical music. His interests in theology led him to take the ThM from Princeton in 1968, and he worked as a Methodist minister from 1964 to 1972 and as a part-time university instructor of Christian ethics at the University of Buffalo from 1982 to 1985. He also worked in radio, at WNYC in 1976 (programming) and as a classical music host at WNED (1977 to 1985) and WGUC (from 1985 to 1987). He began writing for the American Record Guide in 1983 and became its editor in 1987.

Like many critics, Vroon holds strong and sometimes unusual viewpoints, which include a strong distaste for historical performance practice and much contemporary music, an equally strong belief in the expressive power of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century masterworks, and a deep pessimism about the decline of modern culture (reflected, among many other things, by the increasing pervasiveness of mass media). These viewpoints and others he shares in his reviews and in an editorial column, "Critical Convictions," in the magazine.

Vroon lives in Cincinnati. In addition to his interests in music, he enjoys travel, beer, and wine. He reads voraciously and does not own a television.

References

1. ^ Vroon, Donald. "Private Editorials for Friends". American Record Guide web site. http://www.americanrecordguide.com/eps.html. 

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