*I've never seen Paul Morley get so wrapped up in a topic. It looks like the gentleman
absorbed a fullscale humanistic education over there.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jul/12/classical-music-becoming-a-composer
"As I write, I am completing a piece for string quartet. Yes, I am. At some point during the last few months the thought seemed to be the most exotic thing imaginable, and because it is such a difficult discipline, and very exposed, lacking the protection of blasting, chirping masses of instruments compensating for lazy, banal writing, the best way of demonstrating the changes in my growing musical ability...."