Visit of Ananda and Chendra and talk about the Dark Lord

Ananda Sukarlan and Chendra Panatan have been here since Wednesday evening. Busy social time, but also loads of talk about music, especially about “new music”.Ananda says I was “born under the dictatorship” so I still think I have to write complicated music which the public can’t understand instead of writing like Previn, Bernstein and Andrew Lloyd Webber. The dictatorship was headed by Lord Boulez who is as sinister as the Dark Lord Vader.But I love some of Boulez’s music, which Andy can’t understand……[he-he]…