That was in 1963, at a time when the classical-music establishment was still in thrall to the postwar professoriate of Austro-German composersandtheir foreign epigones who believed that the future of music lay not with traditional harmony but with Schoenberg-style serialism.
As a result, more than 300 composersand publishers withdrew the right to play theirmusic on the BBC, denying Radio Cymru rights to play about 30, 000 songs.
At the moment, most composersand songwriters sign up to their domestic collecting societies, which collect money from commercial music users on their behalf.