Career
Downes taught at Wellesley College, the Longy School of Music, the University of Minnesota. Much of the end of his career was as a professor at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he taught and advised doctoral students.
Downes was at one time music critic of The Boston Evening Transcript, The New York Post. Downes also wrote program notes for the New York Philharmonic for eighteen years.
In 1955, after his father died, Downes went to work for the New York Times. Downes stayed at the Times for two years. He then received an offer to host the opera quiz on the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts for 20 weeks a year, for the same salary that he received at the Times for an entire year's work. He was host and quizmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Quiz on the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts from 1958 to 1996.
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