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‘Not a cherry tree in sight!’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Gerard McBurney
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Would you have been so very angry? But then again I have already offended in this way, or something like it. Hypothetkally Murdered – or Provisionally Dead or whatever you want to call it – I brought back to life as best I could, trying to clothe your sketches and scribbles in the kinds of instrumental colours that I imagined that you might have liked, or at least that you might have recognized. And this was music for a show which, at the time (in 1931), you described as ‘purely disgraceful’.

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Research Article
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Tempo , Issue 190 , September 1994 , pp. 19 - 22
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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1 David has also pointed out that a lot of things the characters say and feel about their situation might not seem so very strange to someone on a large run-down estate in, say, Dundee in 1994.

2 There exists also the incomplete pre-war The Big Lightning.