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On leaving Cambridge in 1948 Mann joined ''[[The Times]]'' in London. In the same year he married Erika Charlotte Emilie Sohler with whom he had four daughters.<ref name=who/> He remained at ''The Times'' for 34 years, first as assistant music critic (1948–60) and then as chief music critic (1960–82).<ref name=who/> Although the paper in the post-war decades was generally conservative and traditional, Mann was, as a colleague described him, "markedly progressive, even iconoclastic, in outlook."<ref name=grove/> In 1958 Mann contributed the libretto to [[Franz Reizenstein]]'s ''Let's Fake an Opera'', produced for the 1958 [[Hoffnung Music Festival]]. It consisted of "ridiculously juxtaposed excerpts from more than forty operas, which delighted both Reizenstein and the audience".<ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NpeRAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA212&lpg=PA212&dq=%22Let%27s+Fake+an+Opera%22+%22Mann%22+%22Reizenstein%22&source=bl&ots=k0ksIORQ71&sig=ACfU3U3pNOJ970VITrbY4CWsaVx0oFy8Nw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjgztrdqqHoAhWHQUEAHSKUAqsQ6AEwBXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Let's%20Fake%20an%20Opera%22%20%22Mann%22%20%22Reizenstein%22&f=false Hoffnung, A. ''Gerard Hoffnung'' (Garden Press, 1988), p 156]</ref>
▲He achieved notoriety for his assertion that the [[Beatles]] were "the greatest songwriters since [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]]", and, most unusually for a serious music critic, appeared as a panellist on the television pop music programme "[[Juke Box Jury]]".<ref name=times/> As a broadcaster, however, he was better known as a regular contributor to the [[BBC Third Programme]] (later [[BBC Radio 3]]).<ref name= times/> He contributed reviews to ''[[Gramophone (magazine)|The Gramophone]]'' for many years.<ref name=grove/>
In 1985 Mann was director of the [[Bath International Music Festival|Bath Festival]] in succession to [[William Glock|Sir William Glock]].<ref name=times/>
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