Fleming, Shirley (Moragne)

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Fleming, Shirley (Moragne)

Fleming, Shirley (Moragne), American music critic and editor; b. N.Y., Dec. 2, 1931. She was educated at Smith Coll. in Northampton, Mass. (B.A., 1952; M.A., 1954). She was asst. music ed. of Hi-fi Music at Home (1958–60) and of High Fidelity (1960–64); then was ed. of Musical America (1964–91), and subsequently of the valuable “Music in Concert” section of the expanded American Record Guide (from 1992). She also wrote for other periodicals.

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire