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Task for the Day
Jul. 14th, 2007 10:51 amThe task for today is to be open to persuasion of the merits of Edward Elgar as a serious composer.
I have been wont to dismiss him as a third division purveyor of jingoistic bombast, unfit to turn the pages for contemporaries like Debussy, Puccini, Richard Strauss and Sibelius. Listening to last night's First Night of the Proms I groaned inwardly at the Cello Concerto, which seems to me rather a tired cliche. But you may be able to convince me otherwise. Are you up to the challenge?
I have been wont to dismiss him as a third division purveyor of jingoistic bombast, unfit to turn the pages for contemporaries like Debussy, Puccini, Richard Strauss and Sibelius. Listening to last night's First Night of the Proms I groaned inwardly at the Cello Concerto, which seems to me rather a tired cliche. But you may be able to convince me otherwise. Are you up to the challenge?
