Andrew Porter, who wrote the Musical Events column for The New Yorker from 1972 to 1992, was not one to throw around superlatives carelessly, but on the occasion of his death"he passed away yesterday, in London, at the age of eighty-six"a few strong statements are in order. Porter was the most formidable classical-music critic of the late twentieth century, and, pace George Bernard Shaw and Virgil Thomson, may have b…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 02:53PM on April 4, 2015