David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, OM, PCwas a British Liberal politician and statesman... (wikipedia)
Verdi is my god and my other influences are Berlioz and Puccini, with a dash of Debussy in my orchestration.
When I m old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.
I don t actually believe that stones turn into fairies, but I did once meet someone who had seen a fairy and heard a knocker.
Four specters haunt the Poor -- Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.
Each of my symphonies has a fresh character with a specific definition of their own.