DIVINE MASTERPIECE
hat does heaven sound like? We’ll never know until it’s too late, but if there are angels and harps involved, they will surely be playing ‘the’ . Lifting my gaze into the blue yonder I see poor Gounod sitting on a cloud and cursing his luck that it took another half a century – and campaigns first by Johann and then Richard Strauss – for the principle of music copyright and composers’ is the cuckoo in ’s nest.
