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Thread #58499   Message #1981624
Posted By: GUEST, Grimmy
28-Feb-07 - 07:32 AM
Thread Name: Who best represents English music?
Subject: RE: Who best represents English music?
Handel (yes, I know, but thats the thing really, we're a mongrel race)

You don't need to be English to 'represent English music'.

Max Bruch's Scottish Fantasy is more 'scottish' than any scots composer managed.

Some of the most quintessentially 'english' films ever made were directed by Emeric Pressburger.