Title: "imaginary" conversations?
Review: I became suspicious when I opened the book and saw no foundations for the different interviews, how Abell obtained them, place and date, that would have lent a bit of authenticity to the endeavor and exposed his resourcefulness to achieve these encounters. That the author had managed to talk to all his contemporary" giants in the music world, like it was the most natural thing, was astounding and suspicious.And then... Wow! The pervasive leit-motiv of the entire book: divine inspiration! For everything and everyone...and claimed by all the interviewees. Like Beethoven, or Brahms or the rest would have ever claimed that his ideas came from God.... (something only Bush would do... ).Those great composers were rather modest and prosaic, and many a work by Puccini, for example, is mockery and cynicism at the idea of divine intervention ...(think of Gianni Schichi...).
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