On Point

A short, to the point, and on the money reply to the "English Classical Music is Dead" notion is provided by the Guardian's Tom Service.

I pass it along w/out qualification. check it out here.

New music debate redux over at the Times. And more whitewashing of music history into a pointless, and historically wholly inaccurate, division of tonal vs atonal, this time with a specifically English gloss: Stephen Pollard with his notion that English music died with Vaughan Williams' demise, 50 years ago today.