19 FEBRUARY 1994, page 39

Music

The Auld Alliance Robin Holloway A hectic five days in the double life of a fully audited academic, moonlighting as composer and critic, can sometimes involve such a whirl as to......

Television

A hymn to ordinariness Martyn Harris I was going to say the only thing I missed in Middlemarch (BBC2, Wednesday, 9.30 p.m.) was the authorial voice: something to give it a bit......

Sale-rooms

There's no place like home Alistair McAlpine T he market in art and antiques is tenta- tively recovering, and as it feels its way upwards, it prefers lots that are untouched by......