11 JANUARY 1963, page 15

Working Against 'time'

By CLIVE IRVING* ACROSS Sixth Avenue from the paling neon /A. and Babylonian bulk of the Radio City music hall in New York a new temple has arisen, glacial and austere. This is......

111 Usi C

Lives of the Composers By DAVID CAIRNS No great composer's life is so satisfying to contemplate as Verdi's. Almost all the others leave one with a painful sense of the appalling......