By Tom Service [6 August 2014, The Guardian]
Some aperÁus and soupÁons based on those of Paul Morley, with whom I was talking recently for a film I’m making for BBC4 on Mozart. As well as Paul’s Mozartian epiphany – thanks to a darkened room and a Google-lottery of K numbers, but you’ll have to wait until the autumn for more on that – Morley suggested something that got me thinking: that today’s era of technological fluidity, flexibility, and almost-instant access to an entire world of musical possibility suits classical musical culture better, potentially, than it does rock and pop.
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