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Art

Recognition By NEVILE WALLIS WHEN Kurt Schwitters was in- terned in a Scottish camp during the last war, I was told a story not related by his son in his moving appreciation of......

Opera

The Great Cynic By DAVID CAIRNS It is not a work of genius, but it is the work of a genius. The music is full of inventive and beauti- ful things which are quite gratuitous from......