Michael Walsh (author)

Michael A. Walsh (born October 23, 1949[1]) is an American music critic, author, screenwriter, media critic, and cultural-political consultant.

Career

After graduating from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, United States, in 1971, he became a reporter for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle in February 1972, where he shared the New York State Publishers Association first prize for reporting with two colleagues for a series of articles about heroin in Rochester. In May, 1973, at the age of 23, he became the paper's classical music critic.

Walsh was named chief classical music critic of the San Francisco Examiner in November 1977, where in 1980 he won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for music criticism. He became music critic of Time magazine in the spring of 1981,[2] where his cover story subjects included James Levine, Vladimir Horowitz and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

From 1997-2002 he was a visiting fellow of the University Professors, Professor of Journalism and Professor of Film & Television at Boston University. For several years he served as Vice President of the board of the Wende Museum, devoted to East German and Soviet art, artefacts and scholarship, in Culver City, California, and is currently a member of the advisory board. He has lectured widely, both in the U.S. and abroad, including presentations in Tokyo, Japan; Munich, Germany; and Budapest, Hungary, where he appeared in January 2015, and again in June 2018, under the auspices of the Danube Institute.

Beginning in February, 2007 and running until 2015, Walsh wrote for National Review both under his own name and using a fictional persona named David Kahane, the name of which "... is borrowed from a screenwriter character in (the movie) The Player."[3] This persona has evolved into one of "... a Hollywood liberal who has a habit of sharing way too much about the rules by which they live to a conservative audience."[4]

In January, 2010, in collaboration with Andrew Breitbart, he launched BigJournalism.com, devoted to media commentary and criticism. From December 3, 2010, to the summer of 2013 he contributed a weekly opinion column for the New York Post,[5] and in late June 2012 became a featured columnist at PJ Media, where his political and social commentary appears almost daily. He now contributes to the Post as an occasional Sunday columnist, and is a featured weekly columnist at American Greatness as well.

His socio-political work, The Devil's Pleasure Palace, an analysis of the conflict between good and evil using works of literary and musical art as analytical tools, as well as an indictment of the Frankfurt School, was published in August 2015 by Encounter Books. Shortly after publication, it shot to No. 1 on the Amazon Philosophy/Criticism best-seller list. A sequel, The Fiery Angel, appeared in May 2018.

He is a co-principal in The Imprimatur Group, the nation's first cultural-political consultancy.

Bibliography

Non-fiction

  • Carnegie Hall: The First One Hundred Years (Harry N. Abrams, 1987)
  • Who's Afraid of Classical Music (Fireside Books, 1989)
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber: His Life and Works (Abrams, 1989, updated 1997)
  • Who's Afraid of Opera? (1994)
  • So When Does the Fat Lady Sing? (Amadeus, 2008).
  • Rules for Radical Conservatives (as David Kahane; Ballantine, 2010)
  • The People v. the Democratic Party (Encounter Broadside, 2012)
  • The Devil's Pleasure Palace (Encounter Books, 2015)
  • The Fiery Angel (Encounter Books, 2018)

Novels

  • Exchange Alley (1997), a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection upon publication that has since become a cult novel
  • As Time Goes By (sequel to the film Casablanca, 1998)
  • And All the Saints (2003), a fictionalized account of Owney Madden's life that was a 2004 American Book Awards winner.

Espionage thrillers

  • Hostile Intent, featuring the character of "Devlin," a top-secret operative of the Central Security Service, was published in September 2009 by Pinnacle. It reached No. 1 on the Amazon Kindle bestseller list upon its release, and twice appeared on the New York Times's extended bestseller list in October of that year.
  • A sequel, Early Warning, was published in September 2010.[6]
  • The third book in the series, Shock Warning, was published in late September, 2011, and two other installments are scheduled.

Film

Cadet Kelly, a 2002 Disney Channel Original Movie (co-written with Gail Parent) starring Hilary Duff was, until High School Musical, the highest-rated Disney Channel movie in history.

Other

Walsh recently completed Hard Headed Woman, a biopic of the rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson, for LD Entertainment. Other scripts in development include How High the Moon, about the lives of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday (LiveNation, producers); Hound and Horn, set in 1940s Marseilles; and The Harp, set in rural 19th-century Ireland and slated for production in 2018 under the aegis of Kew Media in London. His Cold War script, Charlie (Mikael Hafstroem, director), is currently in the financing and casting stage.

Miscellaneous

He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Wende Museum in Los Angeles, and on the Board of Directors of the Center for Family and Human Rights.[7] His principal residence is in Lakeville, Connecticut.

References

  1. ↑ "Library of Congress Authorities (Search for Name, Subject, Title and Name/Title)". authorities.loc.gov.
  2. ↑ Winfrey, Carey. "From the Editor: Outliers".
  3. ↑ "David Kahane/Michael Walsh - National Review". 30 September 2010.
  4. ↑ "{title}". Archived from the original on 2010-09-29. Retrieved 2010-09-28.
  5. ↑ "PARS – NY Post Reprints". www.nypost.com.
  6. ↑ Andrew Breitbart presents Big Journalism feat. Editor in Chief Michael Walsh Retrieved: 2010-09-08
  7. ↑ "Board of Directors - C-Fam".
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