(idea) by spiregrain Thu Jul 12 2001 at 17:16:10
"The English may not like music - but they absolutely love the noise it makes."

- Sir Thomas Beecham (1879-1961)

Beecham here takes a swing at the tendancy of English listeners to be bowled over by large-scale brash orchestral music, rather than more delicate pieces.
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