tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1124975492809362692005-08-25T14:11:00.000+01:002005-08-25T14:11:00.000+01:00My ignorance of modern music is stunning! ... For years I have "known" about the Manchester school of British composers and interpreters -- usually referring to Alexander Goehr, Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, Elgar Horwarth, and John Ogdon -- but I never knew this story about Mr Ogdon and his triumphs and severe illnesses. pliable, you have cited almost a dozen, largely British, composers who I would like now to listen to, or relisten to -- including Kaikhosru Sorabji, George Lloyd, and Charles Alkan.<BR/><BR/>Having just watched -- with my spouse this past Sunday night -- the generally acceptable and strong Hollywood treatment of New York Times writer Sylvia Nasar's story of American mathematics and economics Nobel laureate John Nash, "A Beatiful Mind", I can only say that this short "on an overgrown path" posting affected me just as deeply. (I had read the Nasar book years before seeing the movie.) I will trust that Mr Ogdon's sketches for his Melville Symphony are in safe and responsible hands.Garth Trinklhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00952837886402774649noreply@blogger.com