28 FEBRUARY 1964, page 18

Hurry On Down

The Rebel. (Aldwych.)— Spoon River. (Royal Court.) — The Tower. (Hampstead Theatre Club.) 'THE world doesn't under- stand what a rebel means,' says one of the ballads and I fear......

Ballet Can Have Its Own Logic, But Within Those Terms

it cannot stretch our credibility too far. Strangely enough we can, it seems, accept a water-nymph for real, but once she is accepted our minds would baulk at the idea of her......

Gray That 'the Melodic Writing Of The Closing Movement [in

the Symphony of Psalms] recalls the Rev. John Bacchus Dykes and Hymns Ancient and Modern.' Now it is the fact that, in his Survey of Contemporary Music, Gray wrote precisely......