18 MAY 1951, Page 18

Musical London

SIR,-1 was delightedly syrpersed one day recently to find entertaining a theatre queue off St. Martin's Lane, not the usual " buskers " but two young students seeking to help pay for their tuition fees by giving a spirited performance of Bach's suite in D, followed by Mozart's Ewe Kleine Nachtmusik arranged for two violins, which would have done credit to many concert halls. One might more readily have expected this to happen in Vienna than in London.—Yours. &c.,