Rodney Ackland Arts
HILARY SPURLING `It's only the hairs on a gooseberry That stop it from being a grape,' as the pantomime dame said in Rodney Ack- land's Strange Orchestra. This time last year, I......
Mock Tudor
BALLET CLEMENT CRISP Looking backwards is a besetting sin with British ballet, reflecting a deep-rooted con- servatism in public taste; at Covent Garden last week the Royal......
We Never Close
MUSIC MICHAEL NYMAN Music is alive and flourishing in considerable opulence in London; there's an unprecedented 'we never close' atmosphere about at the moment, performances six......
Make Me An Offer
CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS Oh, ring-a-ring-a-roses, Ring for the dealers' prize And see the bidding closes Before the prices rise. They buy by nods and winking— The dodge the dealer......