18 MAY 1951, page 13

"vie T)pectator, Ft Ailap 170, 1851

LITERARY PATRONAGE DEALING with " the seedy author" question in his happiest vein of satire, Mr. Thackeray has done much to accomplish his own wish, that the miserable literary......

Music

THERE are not many new voices in this year's Ring at Covent Garden. In Rheingold Otakar Kraus sings Alberich, and his full, round, musical tone gives to the part the dignity......

Ballet

Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet. (Sadler's Wells.) JOHN CRANKO, the active young resident choreographer of the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet, has just presented another new work,......

Verses From The Persian Of Sa'ib (1605-107)

Poet at the Court of the Grand Mogul. and later Poet Laureate to Abbas II. Shah of Persia ON A CANDLE GUTTERING THE Candle does not mourn the Moth Which found oblivion in her......

Recent Records

VOCAL. The quality of the singing in the Anthology of English Church Music (Col.) is very uneven. King's College Choir always come off well ; but there are passages in Wesley's......