21 DECEMBER 1962, page 16

Music

Sublime Compassion By DAVID CAIRNS THE BBC's Westminster Abbey performance of Britten's War Requiem was, to judge by the broadcast (a tape-recording of which I have just heard),......

Art

The Artist's Mind By NEVILE WALLIS MR. MICHAEL AYRTON'S acute and calculating intelligence may remind one of the late, Paul Nash's. Both have sought to reconcile contrary......

Paddy In Shaftesbury Avenue

By ALAN SIMPSON TN order to extend my holiday last summer I 'took a job in a seaside block of fiats on the south coast of France. One day the water was cut off without warning......