Aisle, which received the 1998 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, and Opera: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Works and the Best Recordings. Also a pianist, Tommasini made two recordings of music by Virgil Thomson for Northeastern Records, Portraits and Self-Portraits and Mostly About Love: Songs and Vocal Works. Both were funded through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Tommasini lives on Central Park West in Manhattan, New York City with his husband Ben McCommon, who is a psychiatrist. After his leave from the Times at the end of 2021, Tommasini said he might return to teaching, and that he has two further book ideas. Selected publications Books Articles Discography References Notes Citations Sources External links Four part interview "Musical Moments" interview with Anthony Tommasini 1948 births People from Long Island Writers from Brooklyn Living people Boston University College of Fine Arts alumni Yale University alumni American music critics Opera critics Emerson College faculty Critics employed by The New York Times Classical music critics American LGBT writers 20th-century American pianists LGBT people from New York (state) American LGBT journalists American male pianists 21st-century American pianists 20th-century American male musicians 21st-century American male musicians 21st-century LGBT people