"The average English critic is a don manqué, hopelessly parochial when not exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk…"

"Nothing is so common as to see a political upheaval pass practically unnoticed merely because the names of the leader…"

"To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my m…"

"Once embarked on a course of sensationalism, the composer is forced into a descending spiral spin from which only the…"

"The composer is now faced, not with further experiment but with the more difficult task of consolidating the experime…"

"Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a …"

"The whole trouble with a folk song is that once you have played it through there is nothing much you can do except pl…"

"There is a definite limit to the length of time a composer can go on writing in one dance rhythm (this limit is obvio…"

"The Appalling Popularity of Music."

"It is only comparatively primitive machinery that affords a stimulus, and there is already a faint period touch about…"