“In this context, I remember a story told about Sir Edward Elgar. The magnificent musician W. Reed – leader of the London Symphony Orchestra – as a young man was so impressed when he heard one of Elgar’s works for the first time that he waited for the composer in front of the artist’s room in the old Queen’s Hall in London, and he asked him to give him some lessons in composition. Elgar, always modest and honest, answered him: “Well, you know, I only know little of such matters. But come with me, we will have a little chat about it.”

                                                         Barbirolli