All this would seem reason enough to dismiss him altogether except that he wrote some very fine music. If you cannot separate the composer from the man (or rather, from his beliefs), if you can only hear his music as the work of a man who gave succour to his country's oppressors (and some of whose music was heard during the recent obsequies for the late Queen), then I suppose you have no alternative but not to listen to a note of it.
This is all part of the larger question of the legacy of colonialism. Most of us would agree that the world would be a better place if colonialism had never happened, but what do we do about the art it produced?
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