The late and supposedly less great

Norman, why no posts lately? Your blogging presence is sorely missed over here in NYC, where most classical music critics are shills for a troubled and dying classical music industry.

"Blyth Spirit" did not like Sir Georg Solti. I didn't like "Blyth Spirit".

I note that the Independent posted an obituary for Tikhon Khrennikov today. I believe the Independent is still a UK paper, or have you, for some reason, decided that they no qualify as such ?

Your comment rgarding the attention paid to the passing of Alan Blyth is simply mean-spirited. You imply his contribution was to write obituary notices of opera singers and ignore his large body of intelligent commentary over the years regarding the recording of opera and voice.

NL: I wrote it before the Independent put up - Martin Anderson is commendably quick - or (today) the Telegraph. Still no Russ Johnson anywhere, tho.

Mean? Moi? I liked and respected Alan. We had tea together on Boundary Road. He was a very good opera critic and commentator. Should he have gained obit precedence over the nost original and important maker of concert halls, or the tyrant of Soviet music? I rest my case.