“Mary Ellyn Hutton will be remembered as a journalist with unflagging dedication to Cincinnati’s musical arts,” writes Janelle Gelfand in Tuesday’s (5/29) Cincinnati Business Courier. “The longtime classical music critic for the Cincinnati Post continued to cover the classical scene for more than a decade after the demise of Cincinnati’s afternoon newspaper in 2007. She died … on May 28…. The Hyde Park resident was 77. A classically trained musician, Hutton was a meticulous writer who chronicled and critiqued all of Cincinnati’s classical music institutions, large and small. She went on numerous tours with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and in the days before widespread internet, took along her own typewriter so that she could fax her reports back from hotels abroad…. Hutton was trained as a violist, graduating from the University of Kentucky. She earned a master’s degree in music history from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Law. Hutton practiced law in Kentucky and Texas before returning to her first love, music. She was principal violist of the University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra and played viola in the New Haven Symphony Orchestra while at Yale. She served as associate principal violist of the Lexington (KY) Philharmonic Orchestra from 1971 to 1980.”
Posted May 31, 2018
