Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

Taste is changing, style is changing, and players abilities are changing.

If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.