2 APRIL 1965, page 17

Ballet Abandoned !

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Footnote (and Food For Thought).—this Monu- Mental...

didn't quite fill the house (there were a few thirty-shilling seats left) and took £2,500 at the box office, the rest being met from the LCC and Arts Council grants and an......

Mr. Pinter's Central Figure Is A Sanitary- Engineering...

the name of Disson and we may assume that his hygienic, if sterile, mission is a civilising one: 'We make more bidets than anyone else in England!' He is a cleanser. He purges......

U Ndoubtedly During Its First And Greatest Period, From...

1914, it was pri- marily its exoticisms that won the Diaghilev Ballet its enormous following. Western audiences were comparatively uninterested in Les Sylphides, or Carnaval,......

Music International Class

T HE concert performance of The Capture of Troy, first part of Berlioz's opera The Trojans, ended with tumults for Colin Davis, the New Philharmonia Orchestra, the NPO Chorus......

Another Single Instance Will Have To Suffice As Pointer To

the night's orchestral quality and Davis's gift of adducing 'Berlioz sound.' At the beginning of Act 2, Hector's ghost appears to kneas. The muted horns which haunt and chill......

On What Ground Does Mr. Seymour-smith Decide That Eliot...

sensitivity to the issues of the world he lived in? How has he reached such cost-......