Percy Alfred Scholes

“ Up to the present, the great music of the world has been the private preserve of a little band of people who happened to live in the places where it could be heard, and who happened to have enough money to pay to hear it. ”

“ 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. ”

“ And the next generation, instead of regarding a symphony as a mysterious contrivance of concentrated boredom, will accept the great symphonies of the world as a part of its regular, natural daily and weekly pleasures. ”