14 MARCH 1969, page 22

Turn Of The Screw

OPERA JOHN HIGGINS On her first entry in the current Covent Garden revival of Fidelio Anja Silja cuts an almost frail figure. Her shoulders seem weighed down by the fetters she......

French Polish Music

MICHAEL NYMAN Thirty-five years after the Italian Futurists pro- posed the art of bruitistno, Pierre Schaeffer in 1948 began his experiments with montages of recorded sounds......