Remembering one of the pioneers of twelve-tone music in Britain

‘Searle’s musical setting employs his by now familiar post - Schoenberg romantic idiom: it seems intrinsically apt for a play, which appeals to the romantic as well as the post - Freudian in modern times. In pace and timbre and response to situation, Searle is dynamic, flamboyant, fanciful, though careful about word audibility.’ The Times (William Mann)