Edward Elgar Quote

People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly fostered: some day the press will awake to the fact, already known abroad and to some few of us in England, that the living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further North.

Letter to Canon Gorton, organizer of the Morecambe Music Festival, published in The Musical Times, July 1903.