About Ivan March
Lived 1928 – 2018 (aged 90). Ivan March was a music critic.
Ivan March (5 April 1928 – 1 November 2018) was a musician, editor of The Stereo Record Guide and a series of Penguin Guides to recorded classical music.
Life and career Ivan March was born on 5 April 1928 in Portsmouth, but was raised in Eltham, South London. His father, John, was a policeman; his mother Mabel (née Adams) had been a milliner before her marriage. He was educated at Colfe's School, where one of his teachers awakened a love for music, particularly – then and always – that of Tchaikovsky.
Personal life In 1953 March married Kathleen Forsyth, an opera singer ten years his senior. |
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English musician (1928–2018)
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Ivan March died on 1 November 2018.
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