Tim Rutherford‎-Johnson has worked for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians since 1999 and until 2010 was the editor responsible for the dictionary‎'‎s coverage of 20th‎- and 21st century music‎.‎ He has published and lectured on several contemporary composers‎,‎ and regularly reviews new music for both print and online publications‎.‎ Michael Kennedy was chief music critic of The Sunday Telegraph from 1989 to 2005‎.‎ Before that he was a staff music critic on The Sunday Telegraph from 1950 and its Northern Editor from 1960 to 1986‎.‎ He is an authority on English music of the 20th century and has written books on Elgar‎,‎ Vaughan Williams‎,‎ Britten‎,‎ and Walton as well as on Mahler‎,‎ Strauss‎,‎ Barbirolli‎,‎ Boult‎,‎ and the Halle Orchestra‎.‎ He was awarded the OBE in 1981 and the CBE in 1997‎,‎ and is a member of the Board of Governors of the Royal Northern College of Music‎,‎ Manchester‎.‎ The honorary degree of Doctor of Music was conferred on him in 2003 by the University of Manchester‎.‎ Joyce Bo‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎