When you hear it, you almost think it could have been written by Stravinsky in neoclassical mode. Some people have already been slightly fazed. A try-out at London's Gainsborough Studios last summer was enthusiastically received, though she and Barley subsequently made changes to the order of the pieces. The finished version toured Europe last autumn and can be heard in the UK this month. They can't put it anywhere.
People are so narrow-minded.
The ultimate origins of Through the Looking Glass go far back beyond discussions with record companies, to her student days. A great musician, Kogan, it would seem, was more active on the concert platform than in college. I actually studied with his assistant for eight years. It was while she was studying, however, that she was first exposed to rock, pop and jazz. In the dormitory of the Moscow Conservatory there were a lot of foreign students.