Richard Morrison
Mar 18, 2021
3 minutes
Which living British composers will have their music played a century from now? As I type that question, I realise that answering it will bring me only scorn on social media. And to what end? The bumpy career and wildly fluctuating reputation of Malcolm Arnold – on this month’s cover – reminds us that one era’s critical judgements are rarely shared by the next.
Then you have to factor in all the non-musical things that make
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