tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post2697586771049979577..comments2024-03-27T21:41:50.122-07:00Comments on Iron Tongue of Midnight: Andrew PorterLisa Hirschhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-64347188195567714802015-04-20T10:48:45.316-07:002015-04-20T10:48:45.316-07:00Haha, yes, indeed, he was.Haha, yes, indeed, he was.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-17966642015137193732015-04-09T18:19:30.883-07:002015-04-09T18:19:30.883-07:00Andrew Porter was the finest music critic, bar non...Andrew Porter was the finest music critic, bar none. Aleksei has no idea what he's talking about.ebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05469304208745548925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-82837215431563501982015-04-04T17:39:34.951-07:002015-04-04T17:39:34.951-07:00Oh, shut up, "Aleksei."
Andrew Porter w...Oh, shut up, "Aleksei."<br /><br />Andrew Porter was the best musical pedagogue ever, and when he occasionally offered fulsome praise for a performer, you knew they had to be somebody extremely special. Loved it when he discovered Carol Vaness when she first arrived in New York at City Opera.<br /><br />With him writing about classical music and Pauline Kael covering movies, the Golden Age of Cultural Criticism at the New Yorker came and went in our lifetimes. Glad I got to experience it when it was fresh and exciting.Civic Centerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12362422142667230626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-21096300395721947112015-04-04T14:43:18.480-07:002015-04-04T14:43:18.480-07:00Well, that's just nonsense, and a big tipoff t...Well, that's just nonsense, and a big tipoff that perhaps you're yet another sock puppet for Eric/Genevieve Castle Room/Pelleastrian/Harpist.Lisa Hirschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014924958428072675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8957911.post-73764625252743684322015-04-04T12:01:39.183-07:002015-04-04T12:01:39.183-07:00Porter was a very learned man of course but this d...Porter was a very learned man of course but this does not change the fact that the best critical writing is superfluous to its subject, and musical criticism is the most superfluous of all.Alekseihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11581363302791171286noreply@blogger.com