I Respect Your Views, Not Those of the Chairman Classical Music

The Herald › December 31, 2005

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A WHILE ago, a chap sidled up to me in a concert hall and, unbidden, came out with a number of suggestions as to things I might want to write about. The suggestions amounted to storylines featuring characters, events, or music in the coming classical calendar.

Rather irritatingly, he also proposed that the arrival of such and such an artist for a guest appearance in Scotland would make a good picture story - "don't you think?" As well as any professional inquisitiveness that journalists might possess, they have a highly developed sense of resistance to the notions thrown at them right, left, and centre by every Tom, Dick, or Harry who bumps into them or seeks them out.

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I Respect Your Views, Not Those of the Chairman Classical Music

It happens all the time. Everybody has a view. Everybody has ideas. So, there was nothing uncommon in someone approaching a critic to sound off about their own notions. Except in one respect:...

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