How Does It Feel? - ACE056.7

Michael Tippett talking about the genesis of his Symphony No.3 while listening to music at the Edinburgh Festival; the notes he’s made on his ideas; playing phrases on the piano (part of performance heard over); the score. He says the music is "not about the sensations of the external world, but about the intimations, intuitions, dreams, the fantasies, the feelings, particularly the feelings of our inner experience…" and talks about the mystifying process of transmuting external experience into sound. He says that "we want our souls to be nourished and unless they are nourished, we are dead."