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Arts Hall's Garden Plot

JOHN HIGGINS 'My friends think I'm mad to take the job'. Peter Hall is happily belligerent about his decision to go to Covent Garden at the be- ginning of the 1971/2 season as......

Music Patchwork

MICHAEL NYMAN Many once obscure composers, like Stock- hausen and Berio, seem to be coming in from the cold abstractions of serialism to rum- mage around musical second-hand,......