Written Works

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]

Bearing in mind Brahms’ misogynistic proclivities, it is only to be expected that he should deliberately pack his sextets ops. [...Read More]

Last Sunday in the Regal Cinema there was a concert of Beethoven given by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by [...Read More]

Last Sunday the pianist Jan Smeterlin gave a Romantic recital in the Guildhall. An Albert Hall agoraphobia seemed to seize [...Read More]

On Thursday, February 7, the Philharmonic Society performed Haydn’s so-called Oratorio, “The Seasons,” in the Guildhall. It was a solemn [...Read More]

The Golden Age Singers at the Guildhall last Sunday afternoon gave a delightfully mellifluous recital of madrigals, balletts and canzonets, [...Read More]

I have always had a suspicion that Bach was not such a monument of Teutonic stolidity as he is sometimes [...Read More]

Musicologists! Ugh! It is a grave sign of the degeneracy of our civilisation that there is such a word, let [...Read More]

Quietly, cosily, we in Cambridge, while everyone else went abroad to Edinburgh or Perugia, we had our usual Summer Festival [...Read More]

The Historical Pageant of British Music performed by the C.U.M.S., using St. John’s New Court as a background, only received [...Read More]

From Cambridge Today, Michaelmas Term 1951 (the complete article is reproduced below, or can be downloaded as a PDF version), Peter Tranchell writes about his opera “The Mayor of Casterbridge,” which was performed at the Arts Theatre during the Cambridge Festival.

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