Written Works

PAT wonders whether some composers’ disabilities might have been feigned...

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An extremely fine concert was given last Wednesday week in the Guildhall by the Leppard Chamber Orchestra, conductor Raymond Leppard. [...Read More]

PAT travelled with a party from King’s as chorus master for a very successful performance of the Provost’s translation of ‘Cyclops’ with music by A H Mann.

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Old fogies reminiscing of past times seem always to remember even the most miserable failures in a haze of golden [...Read More]

Where will it end? Not content with digging up mere music of the past, the Musicologist is turned Archaeologist and [...Read More]

To enjoy one must understand...

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Last Thursday week we had the pleasure of hearing Antonia Butler (’cello), Norman Greenwood (piano) and Frederick Thurston (clarinet) playing [...Read More]

Of all the requisites that go to make a successful singer the voice is the least important. Many vocalists manage [...Read More]

PAT writes about "Syncopating Sandy" Strickland's visit to Cambridge.

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A review by Peter Tranchell of the book ‘Benjamin Britten: a commentary on his works by a group of specialists, edited by Donald Mitchell and Hans Keller’ (London, Rockliff, 1952)

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The mouth-organ (or harmonica) does not look as if it will ever become a serious favourite of the musical amateur, [...Read More]

In music, as in life and literature, it is the evil principle that most often attracts us, while the meditations [...Read More]

Last Tuesday the Cambridge Amateur Operatic Society began a fortnight’s run. The double bill makes a very pleasant evening, and [...Read More]

The concert platform is a lonely place—and though some four score people were sharing it with the pianist last Sunday [...Read More]

We have often wondered why there is each year a Cambridge Summer Festival. Who goes to it? Most of the [...Read More]

On Sunday, June 1, the May Week Concert of the C.U.M.S. was given in the Guildhall. Instead of writing my [...Read More]

An account of a concert given last May-Week will serve, I hope, as an incentive to those organising or attending [...Read More]

In a review of works old and new, PAT has little time for Britten’s “Lachrymae” – ‘where pathetic harmonics are elicited, reminiscent of a eunuch dying from laryngitis’.

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Last Sunday, in the Guildhall, we heard Solomon at the piano. He gave us two out of the Forty-Eight. In [...Read More]

A few weeks ago, new works of some seven contemporary composers were performed in the Music School. The C.U. Composers’ [...Read More]