25 APRIL 1969, page 21

Not Being Done

MUSIC MICHAEL NYMAN John Cage's most recent (1966) thinking on concerts runs as follows: 'I doubt whether we can find a higher goal, namely that art and our involvement in it......

- Dumb Show

OPERA JOHN HIGGINS Introducing his opera Hamlet to the Friends of Covent Garden some ten days ago, Humphrey Searle remarked that he had been considering setting a Shakespeare......