Kate Molleson begins Sound within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century with a loud call for change. “I write this book out of love and anger. The love, because I want to shout from the rooftops that classical music is gripping, essential, personally and politically game changing. The anger, because I can’t shout proudly about a culture that wilfully closes its doors on perceived outsiders. And it does.”


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Hugh Morris is a freelance writer and editor based in London.