I know that I quite often, listening to one of our public radio station's classical music programs, will hear an unfamiliar piece and tell my wife, "I'll bet that's English!" And it almost always is. There is what I think of as a pallidness, a sort of simplistic approach that I don't hear from composers of any other nationality. Not all English music is this way, but when I hear what I'm talking about I can attribute it pretty accurately.

Dave Oesterreich