19 MAY 1990, page 49

Music

Rehearsing Clarissa Robin Holloway sees his musical ideas translated into stage action E very account of Clarissa has for ob- vious reasons stressed the opera's fun- damental......

Sale-rooms

No books please, we're British Peter Watson W ith the ever-increasing ascendancy of the auction houses, diatribes from the dealers are becoming as frequent as hazard warning......