Rock critic at the Royal Academy of Music

*I've never seen Paul Morley get so wrapped up in a topic. It looks like the gentleman

absorbed a fullscale humanistic education over there.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jul/12/classical-music-becoming-a-composer

"As I write, I am completing a piece for string quartet. Yes, I am. At some point during the last few months the thought seemed to be the most exotic thing imaginable, and because it is such a difficult discipline, and very exposed, lacking the protection of blasting, chirping ma