My Dear Palestrina
May 28th 2017 I'd never heard of Palestrina until I was well into my 20’s. One day – around 1977 – I asked Maurice Bradley, my friend and cultural mentor, to name his favourite musician. Without hesitating, he replied: 'Palestrina’. The name meant nothing to me.
Maurice is an expert on opera and classical music. I have always respected his musical opinions, so when he praised Palestrina, I went out and
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