Tama Matheson
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770 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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I mean, how did people get their work done?
I think it had been given to him by someone else.
So work was performed and sent around, and suddenly I found that this was happening, and it made me slightly famous.
But the trouble with fame is that it increases the scrutiny in one's life.
Fame, it seems to me, is like Brutus in the Capitol waiting to stab Caesar to death.
And the public, its willing accomplices, were standing with sharpened knives to join in the execution.
I became more and more frightened of it.
But then an extraordinary thing happened.
My first great success, I suppose, came from my Romeo and Juliet overture, which had been suggested to me by Balakiev.
It's just an overture, a freestanding overture, so it's essentially a tone poem about Shakespeare's play.
No, it's just called an overture, but it's essentially a tone poem.
And Balakirif had written to me a sort of plan.
He said you could set it out like this, and I was thrilled by the idea because I loved Shakespeare.
No, no, it's purely orchestral, so it's just an orchestral colour that suggests the incidence of the play.
And who's this man who wrote to you?
Balakurev, the great composer who was the leader of the great five, the Moguchka and Kuchka.
But he was the leader of that group.
And he wrote inviting you, suggesting... He suggested I write this as if it would be a good project for me as a young composer.
And I have to say, I love the idea, but at first...
I didn't know how to write it.
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