25 JANUARY 2003, page 60

Charmed By Students

Robin Holloway W orkshops', piously fetishised in recent decades, have never been my idea of fun. Too often there's a sense of implicit condescension; and even when in the hands......

Mind Out

Toby Young L e Talking Cure, Christopher Hampton's new play about psychoanalysis, has finally opened at the National. The curtain was due to go up last December but it had to be......

Self-taught Great

Michael Vestey J ulian Bream was rightly described by Humphrey Burton on Radio Three last week as one of our greatest living musicians and a clear successor to Segovia. The......