Allen Hughes

Allen Hughes (28 December 1921 – 16 November 2009) was an American dance and music critic. Born in Brownsburg, Indiana, Hughes began his career as a critic in 1950 at Musical America. He later joined The New York Herald Tribune as a music critic in 1955 before moving to The New York Times in 1960, where he worked as a music and dance critic for 26 years until his retirement in 1986. Notably, he served as the chief dance critic of the newspaper from 1963 to 1965 and was the chief music editor of the Sunday Arts and Leisure section in the early 1980s. Hughes passed away at the age of 87 in Sarasota, Florida.More