16 MAY 1969, page 22

Boulez In The Labyrinth Arts

MICHAEL NYMAN Pierre Boulez—conductor elect of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader of the European avant-garde of the 'fifties, somewhat academic critic of today's musical scene......

Non-fiction

Elgar Michael Hurd (Faber 21s). The story of his life and a general appreciation of this work plumped out with scraps of music. photographs and some curiously Lear-like drawings......

Mister Corbett's Ghost And Other Stories Leon Garfield...

Books 18s). Readers with an appetite for period adventure will already be familiar with the excellent Mr Garfield. A generous imagination, a brisk, inventive pen, together with......