All the concerts, meetings and conversations at the Festival [Second Modern Music Festival] were great events for me. Much of what I have written over the last forty years was performed here in a mere ten days. I saw the whole of my career, from the First Symphony to my most recent work, the orchestrated version of the cycle From Jewish Folk Poetry, first performed at one of the Festival concerts. Almost fifty of my works were played – considerably more than at the recent Festival in Edinburgh.