BRAHMS AND LISZT.....

Today I am quoted (inaccurately) in the Halifax Copurier for pouring scorn on the notion that we should put up a plaque in mmeory of the late, great Franz Liszt, who stayed for one night at the White Lion in Hebden Bridge many moonlight concertos ago. Don't get me wrong. Nothing against the great composer. But if we put plaques up to every musician or artist who has been here there would be a public outcry at the expense and you would not be able to move for blue plaques. Ray Davies, for example, visited a cafe-bar here a couple of years ago. A plaque for him? And all the other world musicians /rock artists who have traipsed the streets with glass ( or whatever ) in hand. The one place there SHOULD be a plaque is the Stubbing Wharf pub . Our local Bard, Ted Hughes, wrote a poem in its honour. That is something worth commemorating.......