Scott Cantrell
E-mail: scantrell@dallasnews.com
HOMETOWN: Fort Smith, Ark.
EDUCATION/CAREER TRACK: BFA, Southern
Methodist University; M.S., Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute. Classical
music critic for newspapers in
Albany and Rochester, N.Y. and Kansas
City, Mo. before coming to The Dallas Morning
News in 1999. Free-lance
writer for The New York Times, Encyclopaedia
Britannica and numerous music magazines; has
performed as organist and choral
conductor. President, Music Critics Association of North
America, 1993-97.
MOST UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE ON
THE JOB: Hearing the Dallas Symphony
Orchestra in the Vienna Musikverein,
where Brahms and Mahler conducted.
SOMETHING PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOUT
ME: I'm a real devoté of modern architecture
and design.
IF I HAD TWO SPARE HOURS, I WOULD: Stroll through the Japanese section
of the Missouri Botanical Garden
in St. Louis. It's the most sublime
place I know on earth.
I AM ALWAYS ENTERTAINED BY: People
with lively senses of humor. Life's
too important to be taken too seriously.
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