Rutland Boughton - Quotations About Boughton

Quotations About Boughton

• "I believe that Boughton's works will eventually be regarded as one of the most remarkable achievements in the story of our music" — Charles Kennedy Scott, 1915

• "The Immortal Hour is a work of genius" — Sir Edward Elgar, 1924

• "... The Immortal Hour enchants me. The whole thing gripped me" — Dame Ethel Smyth, 1922

• "Now that Elgar is gone, you have the only original personal English style on the market...I find that I have acquired a great taste for it" — George Bernard Shaw, 1934

• "I remember vividly how Boughton made his characters live, and the masterly effect of the choral writing" — Sir Arthur Bliss on The Immortal Hour, 1949

• "In any other country, such a work as The Immortal Hour would have been in the repertoire years ago" — Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1949