natsounds

"If an audience laughs at early Schoenberg, how can it face the music of today? As yet very few audiences, specialist circles apart, have been invited to listen to new music. I suspect we are living in a fool's paradise, in complete ignorance of recent or even distant musical developments"
Peter Maxwell Davies, 1959

"My first proper shoes were a pair of clogs"
Harrison Birtwistle, 2013

"I'm playing the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order"
Eric Morecambe, 1971