S IR. - -Mr. Pirouet should have read my letter before replying to
it. I dealt specifically with the pro-
grammes appended by Mr Glock to his arti hese Will be heard by a thousand times more petit than the Albert Hall can house. My statements about the number and duration of items were accurate. If Mr. Pirouet thinks that the virtual exclusion of Wagner ia justified by the performances of his works else- Where, why include Mozart and Beethoven in the Proms?
Mr. Glock professed to represent orchestral music from the eighteenth century to the present day. I Was not foolish enough to suggest that Britten and Other living composers should not be included. But v- I produce an anthology of English poetry which
out he her :at' iafl en. to no tilY .ted ,tirs
gos includes one song by Shakespeare, one sonnet by Milton, twenty poems by T. S. Eliot and a dozen by Ella Wheeler Wilcox I should not expect even Mr. Pirouet to consider it representative.
The fact is that the programmes are the personal choice of the BBC's controller of music—a very sad one. He tried to anticipate criticism by alleging that they served two worthy purposes. They do not. —Yours faithfully, Queen's Hotel, Eastbourne
G. H. BOSWORTH
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