Composers often prefer talking about their own music to actually listening to it ;D
At least nowadays! Perhaps they should follow more in the example of Bach, Mozart or Beethoven, who as far as I know, never delivered even the briefest of pre-concert talks or roundtables ;)
I have seen Holloway described as a "neo-romantic" ::) That is stretching the definition of "neo-romanticism", is it not ???
That only really works in the same way that one could describe Robert Simpson as a "neo-romantic"—the relationship Simpson's music has to Haydn, Beethoven, Bruckner, Nielsen and the other composers he specialised in as a musicologist, is similar to that Holloway's has to Schumann, Wagner, Debussy, Strauss and the other composers
he specialises in as a musicologist. As far as I've been able to gather anyway. Of course, it could be argued that this is the
real neo-romanticism, and there is nothing "neo" about most of the neo-romantic composers with whom the term is usually associated (as they have been negatively criticised... for some reason ??? as though romantic music is a
bad thing ???)