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Music

Unknown quality Peter Phillips H enry Wood wrote in 1938: 'Every- thing is commercialised. There must be a "star" conductor — Toscanini or Furtwan- gler — and this famous......

Theatre

Hush (Royal Court) Street of Crocodiles (National ) Transfer time Sheridan Morley A the Royal Court embarks on one of the longest change-over periods in theatre history......

Portraiture

No hiding place Giles Auty found the view from the subject's chair illuminating yet uncomfortable I t is more a matter of surprise to me than pride that a number of artists I......