tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post2299342310192156823..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Uncomfortably stilted and oddly archaicUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1705302620551052462008-10-12T08:23:00.000+01:002008-10-12T08:23:00.000+01:00Nice response elsewhere - http://angryorganist.blo...Nice response elsewhere - http://angryorganist.blogspot.com/2008/10/exciting-things-elsewhere.htmlPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-28241669006999261922008-10-10T21:53:00.000+01:002008-10-10T21:53:00.000+01:00I suspect I am not the only person to have noticed...I suspect I am not the only person to have noticed the partisan tone of <I>Composing an American Life.</I><BR/><BR/>My copy comes with a Preface in which John Adams spends two pages extolling the virtues of British music. He tells how hearing the Boston Symphony play Vaughan Williams was <I>'an experience that imprinted me for life'</I>.<BR/><BR/>I can only assume that the Preface was a last-minute addition to the UK edition as the book's index contains not a single mention of Vaughan Williams.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com