“Occasionally we act as though artistic worth were constant across the ages – hence the phrase ‘timeless classic’ – but it isn’t so. The past, as novelist L.P. Hartley remarked, is another country, and the future another one still. Why assume that audiences in all those countries value the same things? And why assume that the things valued by future listeners are more profound and more important than those that appeal to a composer’s contemporaries?” – San Francisco Chronicle