But asking the BBC Philharmonic to do a retrospective of all the Arthur Butterworth symphonies? It's not going to happen....and why? "Box-office poison" would be the response; or, more likely, with a BBC orchestra, the producer would say "Arthur Butterworth? Never heard of him!".
I have had a long and unsuccessful campaign of trying to persuade the ABC Classics FM station to play better music, ie not the Romantic schmalz in snippets that they specialise in, and this what what they always reply "The audience wouldn't like it". To which I reply "If you never play the sort of music I am suggesting how do you know people won't like it?"
The high point of my campaign was printing out the Gramophone's reviews of the Hyperion Robert Simpson symphonies and mailing them to them.
