Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.
I'm a Red Tory. To get a fix on this category, you have to go back to the 19th century. The Tories were the ones who believed that those in power had a responsibility to the community, that money should not be the measure of all things.
I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.
