“Your views are as narrow as your tie.”

I like to write music which takes its inspiration from poetry, art and nature. I do not care for purely decorative music.

As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and emotional form of expression.

Finally, it is the communicating link between the screen and the audience, reaching out and enveloping all into one single experience.

I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror, grandeur, gaiety, or misery. It can propel narrative switftly forward, or slow it down. It often lifts mere dialogue into the realm of poetry.

Although I am in sympathy with modern idioms, I abhor music which attempts nothing more than the illustration of a stylistic fad. And in using modern techniques,