28 DECEMBER 1956, page 15

The Year's Music

IT has not been a rich year in music. The first half of it was dominated by the Mozart bicentenary, universally celebrated. A new complete edition of his works has been begun in......

The Year's Television

MORE rather than better television is what 1956 has meant. The commercial boys in their first full i year have certainly got into a sort of stride remarkably quickly. Sure,,......

Twelve Months Ago I Suggested That We Were In For

an invasion of action painting, !'art autre, tachisme, abstract expressionism, the most fashionable experiments emerging from New York and Paris. The assault has, in fact, been......