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“...Eventually my capacity to profess any kind of intelligence on the matter gave way to the silent realisation that I knew nothing about this music. I knew nothing about the people who had performed it, the people who continued to enjoy it, or of the real circumstances under which it was written, or why, for that matter, its continued existence should seem so suddenly bursting with significance. Hour after hour we listened as melodies were offered up in the most casual presentation, as if the whole senior population had been quietly observing this moment. A surprising number of the melodies were known to us, a couple with shocking intimacy. We could not reconcile the apparent previous knowledge of these melodies with the dramatically new and liberating way in which they seemed to strike us...”
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