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A consultant to the Metropolitan Opera and the Metropolitan Opera Guild for more than thirty years, Hamilton was coproducer of the Metropolitan Opera Historic Broadcast Recordings series (19812008), coedited the Metropolitan Opera Encycbpedia (1987), wrote program notes and provided regular input to the popular intermission quiz on the Mets Saturdayafternoon radio broadcasts.
New York, NY, January 18, 1935 - February 19, 2013
A graduate of Princeton, Hamilton worked as music and record librarian at Princeton University (1960-65) and music editor at W. W. Norton (1967-74). He was the New York correspondent for the Financial Times (1969-74) and a contributing editor to High Fidelity (1969-84). A specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century music, Hamilton was also a distinguished critic of recordings; he contributed authoritative, well-considered essays to Alan Blyths Opera on Record series, as well as to The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera and The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Opera on Video.
A consultant to the Metropolitan Opera and the Metropolitan Opera Guild for more than thirty years, Hamilton was coproducer of the Metropolitan Opera Historic Broadcast Recordings series (19812008), coedited the Metropolitan Opera Encycbpedia (1987), wrote program notes and provided regular input to the popular intermission quiz on the Mets Saturdayafternoon radio broadcasts. He also wrote criticism and features for The Nation, The New Yorker and OPERA NEWS. He died after a long illness.
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