27 JANUARY 1996, page 24

Sir: Of The Older Post-war Scholars And Per- Formers Of

baroque and Renaissance music few have a more distinguished record than Denis Stevens, nobody would deny that; equally, nobody who knows him would ever assert that he was a......

Letters A Portillista Replies

Sir: Your magazine is becoming so obsessed with Mr Michael Portillo that, as something of a Portillista myself, I am mild- ly encouraged. The article by Mr Bruce Anderson (Poli-......

Not Charm Enough

Sir: Denis Stevens's attack on the personal- ities of a succession of Heather Professors and the performance of the Oxford Music Faculty over the last 50 years CA little light-......

Sir: Professor Stevens Knows That The Dead Cannot Sue For

slander and therefore turns his gratuitously rough tongue on Sir Jack Westrup and Denis Arnold. That Professor Stevens has a deep dislike of Oxford's Fac- ulty of Music is no......