Sir Malcolm Arnold RIP

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Composer Sir Malcolm Arnold dies

I'm gutted.

85 is a good innings.

But I cried in tears in the pub. My O-Level set woks were by Monteverdi, Handel, Mozart, Schumann, Faure and Arnold. I believe that Malcolm Arnold's Scottish Dances made him worthy of that sentence, that company.

Not a major part of my life; it's years sinceI heard Scottish Dances. But I hear them in my head.

I hope that death is more peaceful than life.