"If it has no value, it deserves its neglect".
If there is one area in which Face the Music could be faulted, it is its neglect of serialism and other post-tonal styles.
The work has never been popular; in 1948 the critic Colin Mason lamented its neglect and called it one of Britten's greatest works.
It exerts a deep spell, yet its neglect by Hungarian governments before and after 1989 is a disgrace.
In the sad, grimy little church, he had understood how her imagination had been excited and still was, but the poverty of the place had a finality about it, even as the attempts to disguise its neglect had.
Because it is a fundamental state function like entropy its neglect in process engineering can cause only more effort and worse results.
Arguably Turnage's masterpiece, it hasn't been heard in the UK since 2002, and its neglect in recent years is inexplicable.
As for soft power, Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo Bay, America's slowness to tackle climate change and its neglect of the Palestinians have all, rightly or wrongly, cost it dearly.
The reasons for its neglect are not hard to discern.
How else can we explain its neglect of the arts?
Its neglect had become a sore point with Mexico, which does not support the death penalty.
