17 JUNE 1949, page 15

Art

EDWARD BURRA'S new exhibition at the Leicester Galleries—his fifth —shows no startling developments, nor any noticeable weakening of his perverse and powerful talent. Projects......

Music

THE Covent Garden Opera season, which came to an end with a performance of Figaro on June nth, was chiefly remarkable fot the two cycles of The Ring and Tristan during the last......

The Nightingale

BETWEEN the brown bill of a bird All a heart's passion I have heard Through the June night, singing and singing. World to destruction going, world Where life is dying under the......

Spectator

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