Christopher Manion played
music in restaurants while he studied at the University of Chicago's Graduate
School of Business and Notre Dame University, where he earned a Ph.D. in
government. Since then, he has taught at various universities, spent
six years as a subcommittee staff director on the Senate side of Capitol
Hill, and helped found the political satire group The Capitol Steps. He has been a contributing editor and music critic for Saturday
Review and High Fidelity magazines, and his op-eds and book
reviews appear frequently in The Wall Street Journal.
Ted Libbey, Jr., graduated
from Yale and studied music at the Stanford University Graduate School.
He has served as a music critic for The New York Times and as classical
music editor for High Fidelity magazine before becoming the classical
music critic for National Public Radio, where he is a commentator
on the weekly show, "Performance Today." His best-selling book,
The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection,
is in its sixth printing. He has designed collections for Time-Life
Music, two of which have sold over a million copies. He has served
as a judge for the U.S. Information Agency's Artistic Ambassador program,
as well as for the International Record Critics Awards.
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