Neville Cardus (1889 – 1975)
Celebrated British journalist.
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A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.
For the game is everlasting only insofar as we keep returning to it for delights put into it by countless boys of all ages.
It is the only one in existence that might conceivably have been composed by God.
Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.
If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.
Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but you could break the shell only if your hands were blessed.
Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water.
Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible.
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