Tama Matheson
speaker
770 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
Tama Matheson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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As a composer.
In his music, you really hear that composing is difficult.
What a giftless bastard he is.
He seems to be the ideal composer for those who like their music four-square, bland, predictable, and tuneless.
He's very popular, as happens with the British.
Having tasted your food, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.
I came because I was given an honorary doctorate by Cambridge University.
Gosh.
Which no other Russian composer ever received, not even Klinker.
I don't know exactly how to quantify happiness.
As you go through life, I realise, as I got older, that fate begins to take away the things she gives you at the outset.
All my friends, slowly, La Roche, Captec, even the lively Apuctin, were blown away in the wind like autumn leaves.
Because we only borrow the things we have from that great usurer, time.
And when we pay him back, we pay him with the interest of heartache and pain.
And when I was young, I felt as though time had no power over me.
There was no chance that I could ever grow old.
As I got older, it seemed to be no possibility that I was ever young.
I lost a great number of my friends along the way.
One of the worst thunderbolts in my life was the death of Nikolai Rubinstein, my mentor, who died the year after my father.
So in quick succession, these two died.
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