Mary Ann Feldman

Mary Ann Feldman (; April 20, 1933 – February 18, 2019) was an American music critic.

Biography Born Mary Ann Janisch in St. Paul, Minnesota, Feldman grew up in the Frogtown neighborhood of the city. Her parents were the proprietors of a small restaurant there. She was educated at the University of Minnesota, where she studied journalism and music history and received a BA in 1954. While there she wrote music reviews for the Minnesota Daily under the pseudonym "V. I. Olin".

From 1977 until 1981 Feldman was a member of the board of directors of the Music Critics Association; until 1986 she was the vice-president of the Metropolitan Opera for the Upper Midwest. Beginning in 1996 she worked for the Grand Teton Music Festival as a writer and speaker. Her interests during her career included such diverse topics as theories of music criticism; the history of music critics active in the Western United States; and the musical history of Minnesota. Her writing appeared in such outlets as Musical America, Opera News, the Minneapolis Star, and the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, as well as publications of the Schubert Club International Artists Series. Feldman received the An die Musik Award from Schubert Club in 2001.

Feldman died in Minneapolis of complications from Alzheimer's disease, from which she had suffered for more than a decade. Her husband, Harold, a computer technician, died of dementia in 2016. She is buried in Lakewood Cemetery.