Music Matters Max edition
Oct. 10th, 2009 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylToday's edition of Music Matters, which celebrated Peter Maxwell Davies' recent 75th birthday, was quite the best bit of radio I've heard in a while. Tom Service was a insightful and relaxed, while Max was wonderfully forthcoming about both the hows and the whys of his music and his methods.
There were some really charming moments. An moment of brinkmanship with the tide on a beach walk; Max talking about the famous swan pate incident; his partner Colin Parkinson talking about how he and Max met; Max's comment that perhaps his small-scale compositions for school children were more important in some ways than his symphonies.
The whole programme was a total delight. Not so much an interview as a discussion — and a series of walks — with friends.
There were some really charming moments. An moment of brinkmanship with the tide on a beach walk; Max talking about the famous swan pate incident; his partner Colin Parkinson talking about how he and Max met; Max's comment that perhaps his small-scale compositions for school children were more important in some ways than his symphonies.
The whole programme was a total delight. Not so much an interview as a discussion — and a series of walks — with friends.
