Advice to Note

Icon of NZ music remembered. Composer Douglas Lilburn, 85, found a “distinctive voice from his native New Zealand.” The Guardian praises the “strong emotional appeal” of his music, noting that Lilburn  took to heart advice to “cut out all the bits you like best”, meaning “don’t be clever, don’t be silly, don’t try to impress – search for what is valid in your intuition, your understanding, and go from that.”

Douglas Lilburn: November 2 1915 – June 6 2001