ABSTRACT
This chapter presents interview with Roger Smalley regarding his interests and experiences in music. He was participated in orchestral music heard at concerts by the Salford Symphony Orchestra, which was an amateur orchestra that played concerts on Sunday afternoons and played mostly popular classical repertoire. And Halle 20 concerts, which contained some outstanding things that impressed him greatly, Sibelius's Second Symphony, for example, and Bartók's Second Piano Concerto. He was beginning to hear quite a lot of this music, but there was no one to explain how it worked, and there were no books on it in those days. The people he remembered doing the composition course were Lutosławski, Nono, and Elisabeth Lutyens. He honestly can't remember learning from Lutyens or Nono, but he did learn from Lutosławski. There was another composer, slightly older than him, called Gordon Crosse, who had already been tarred with this brush: everything he wrote showed the influence of Max Davies, and of Britten, actually.
