COMING MUSICAL EVENTS
JANUARY
19 (and 23, 26, 30, Feb. 2): Don Carlos (Covent Garden).
19 Macnaghten Concert (Thirtieth Anniversary): works by Stravinsky, Britten, Rawsthorne, Vaughan Williams, etc. (Arts Council, 4 St. James's Square).
20 BBC Orchestra, Michael Gielen : Stravinsky's Orpheus, Gielen's Variations for forty instru- ments and Beethoven's Second Symphony (Third Programme).
21 'The Birth of an Opera'—Tristan (Third Pro- gramme).
24 (6.15-7.15) First concert in reconsecrated church of St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe, Queen Victoria Street: Palestrina's Mass Assumpta est Maria, motets by Byrd and Schutz.
24 BBC Orchestra, Gielen: Stravinsky's Agon, Webern's Five Pieces, Messiaen's Revell des Oiseaux, Mozart's Masonic Funeral Music (RFH).