The Critic and the Maestro

A rare tribute from a musician to a critic: Riccardo Muti speaks to WFMT's David Polk about the late Andrew Patner, in advance of the Patner Celebration in Chicago tomorrow. Andrew mentioned the music played at the end — Franck's Symphony in D Minor and Bob Dylan's Shadows in the Night — in e-mails to me a couple of days before his shockingly sudden death. We exchanged, on average, three or four messages a day, adding up to tens of thousands over the years. I miss him every morning.

Previously: For Andrew Patner.