26 JULY 1969, page 21

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,......

Ballet

Superman CLEMENT CRISP As Spartacus in the Bolshoi's newest ballet at Covent Garden last week, Mikhail Lav- rovsky gave the finest performance by a male dancer that I have ever......

Cinema

Gruff stuff PENELOPE HOUSTON Alfred the Great (Empire, 'A') Three Into Two Won't Go (London Pav- ilion, 'X') Years ago, I remember listening to one opera-going friend expounding......