This book contains something to interest ayone who goes to concerts, enjoys listening to fine music, is a musicians or would like to have more backgroud information about musical performance. Illustrated throughout, it deals with such wide ranging subjects as what provides inspiration for composers and how musicians came to an interpretation of music, and includes material on musical notabilities such as conductor Sir Charles Mackerras, organist Gillian Weir, COmposers Sir William Walton, Charles Ives, Martinu, Shostakovich and Pater Sculthorpe, and great composers of the past-Beethoven Mahler, Sibelius and Delius. Some of the pieces have been published in ABC Radio;s 24 Hours magazine and all have been broadcast on ABC-FM Stereo and Radio National.