Written Works

There was howling in the vestry as we took our seats. An orgy was evidently in progress.

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It is often said that a composer cannot be a good critic of music, and that even a performer is [...Read More]

Music is an international language; or so we are told. Harmony in the ears makes harmony in the heart and [...Read More]

Cuneiform music has long been a topic on everybody’s lips. A Babylonian clay tablet dating from about 800 b.c. has [...Read More]

I was sitting rather near. Moiseiwitsch is such a wonderful salesman, but his sales-talk can be overwhelmingly forceful. Sometimes there [...Read More]

Our civilisation has reached a very fine peak of hygiene in many ways—bread is wrapped, cigarettes are tipped, throats swabbed, [...Read More]

“It was a challenge”, says the Governess when she learns that the children have all along been enjoying in secret [...Read More]

Amateur theatricals since the time of Nero have been an infallible means of losing face without making money; and where, [...Read More]

A composer sits at the piano and plays a pretty tune,—“why don’t you publish it,” say all his friends,—“why don’t [...Read More]

“Fidelity!” Persons busy in the race to appear more cultured or knowledgeable than they are will find this “O.K.” word [...Read More]

More and more music is becoming no more than a background noise; less and less is anyone prepared to make [...Read More]

Pouishnoff’s recital on February 27 was a masterpiece of interpretation and pianism. The programme included Bach’s Italian Concerto, Beethoven's “Appassionata,” [...Read More]

PAT responds vigorously to a claim that there were too many ‘private enterprise’ concerts of dubious quality in Cambridge.

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Dvorak’s Stabat Mater was performed on January 27 in St John’s College Chapel by the Cambridge Philharmonic Society. It is [...Read More]

It spoke well for the C.U.M.S. under new management that the performance of Berlioz’ “Childhood of Christ” was as good [...Read More]

PAT finds programme notes often more of a hindrance than a help when appreciating a concert: ‘programme-notes in their pestilential variety, their pestilential condescension and pestilential distraction can only be regarded as pestilential.’

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The concert given in King’s College Chapel on Thursday, May 20, was good, bad and indifferent. As the first fifty [...Read More]

The concert opened with The Glories of our Blood and State by Parry. It would have been more profitable to [...Read More]

Perhaps the most stirring and entertaining musical experience of these post-war years has been provided this week at the Guildhall [...Read More]

A very lively and enjoyable production of Princess Ida started last Tuesday at the Arts Theatre for two weeks. The [...Read More]