Percy Alfred Scholes

“ There must be others who live in small provincial towns, where a full orchestra is never heard, very rarely a string quartet or a fine singer, and decidedly never an opera performance. And there must be still others living in remote country places where absolutely no music whatever is to be heard. I congratulate all these people upon the enormous extension of their pleasures that has already brought been about by the British Broadcasting Company. ”

“ The emancipation of the human soul through ceaseless striving, and its achievement of self-expression, may be said, very roughly, to represent the general sense of the spiritual basis of Scriabin’s musical works. ”

“ Seizing the main idea of a book or a creed, he would neglect the details, and his imagination would quickly develop a huge scheme of thought having little relation to what he had read. The titles of many of his works and of their separate parts, and the marks of expression affixed to particular passages, indicate plainly the existence of a spiritual “programme.” ”

“ To a large extent the gramophone has, perhaps, already done for music what the invention of printing did for literature. But broadcasting will do even more, for it makes fine musical performance easier to come by—and dirt cheap. ”