Another British Obituary

This is another superbly written British obituary from the Times of London. The subject is the film composer Sir Malcolm Arnold, who won an Oscar for the Colonel Bogey March (the whistling song) in Bridge on the River Kwai. Here in the States we turn mawkish and sentimental and non-judgmental when people die; in England the obit writers take the opportunity to give a clear-eyed and fair summation to a life.