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★HOW LATE in life can inspiration flourish? One-answor comes from the man who has just written a symphony at 29. His name labels a phenomenon in English music
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GUBBINS
Ivan Atkins
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
VAUGHAN
ALPH
WILLIAMS, OM,
·Elder Statesman of British music, as academic orators call him, has just completed another sym- phony (his seventh) at the age of 79, something of a feat, if not an outright record. I cannot think of any other front-rank mas- ter who brought out a five- movement symphony in his- 80th year.
Based in part on themes composed three years ago for the Scott Expedition film, the new work is named: Sinfonia Antarctica. Why not Antarctic Symphony? Plain English was good enough for Captain Scott. But pomposity is a voca-
of tional weakness
even those with posers, horae sense.
Williams's horse sense is undeniable. But I detect certain psychological conflicts
the man. in never been
He
com- .
VOGUE
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS *** i' a legend on kgɛ.
Not that Williams made a fortune thereby: the royalty was only 4d a copy,
Altogether it has been a good thing for English musle that the Vaughan Williamses were thanks mainly to inheritance from Josiah, Wedgwood, the 18th century potter-people of Bubstance. Without Independent means Williams would have had to, struggle and scrape 11 turned 00, for only then did his. musle begin to yield a comfort- able living.
One good thing about being comtartaby off is that you can, if so disposed, indulge in the craggy public gesture.
In 1941, a few months before Russia
came into the war, the BBC banned the music of Alan Bush. (Communist) on political ground Williams was furious. What is more, he paraded tila fury, Issuing a shrewdly pub- Helsed
statement which, while rejecting
Bush's
political opinions, caned the BBC for what he called an act of victimisation.
To rub in the pro- test, he withdrew
by CHARLES REID
to ferentially
had been
BOOKS, LOGS
Apart from whinu there has choral piece which has quite sure always been an odd streak of commissioned by Broadcasting whether to run after popu- self-mistrust. At muste college House and returned the fee...
Five days later the Bush ban lar notice or shun it. In the ninelles he listened de-
to the technical was lifted, Occasionally he tries
who solve the problem by bury- prattle of fellow students
were either nobodies or smaller ing his head in the crowd;
men than he. How clever, how, a pretty certain way
professional everybody scemod being spotted and petted.
alongside his groping, amateur A williams's halo went one de- S viewed in some quarters, ish' self! Yet he refused to be
greo shinier. The Left began to One night when
hoctored. With untold labour love him. On his 70th birthday Pilgrim's Progress (pseudo-
he would write a string quarict Soviet composers, in Presidium opera) was nearing the end and show it to his famous, essembled, scat him com- of its run at Covent Garden frightening teacher, Charles V rudely
cable. When, more re- he was identified away up in Stanford. Hooking his pince the Workers Music Association,
cently
he became a patron of the amphitheatre at the top nez on his authoritarian nose, a body of marked Lent Wing of all those steps, listening Stanford would run through the aura, the Dally Worker reported
23 thought it was nearer 12 or out into Floral Street.
of
his
news with reverent
the to his music from a new and manuscript and toss it aside, the "And a pity ee don't 'git on anywhere, there he is in
angle. drawling: "Damnably ugly, all emphasis. humble with his'n, whatever ce's a- hotel lounge, chatting away to relatively
was an instant ret, my boy"
In Williams's case, however, doin' of," said Mr Stonestreet. the old ladles. The plainer and There
Mr plumper they are, the better he ovation which spread to the When over 30, still 'flounder- such compliments are not re- "Ar, that's right," said
as. Incriminating. Tho accepting another likes them. What is your weight? lower tiers and followed him ing professionally he cuddenly carded Lavender,
About II stones.
stumbled on the Folk Movement merit of his music sets him out-
elda the ideological arena. steep which, against
odds, turned out to be the making of
Gruff, benevolent anti him. Buying a primitive record- epigrammatic 08 befits
legend
on two legs, Williams ing machine, he strapped it to his bicycle and combed a score lives on in his rambling, archaic widower's house Dorking for surviving folk where his wife, a sister of mirers speak much of songs, henceforti a vital con- H. A. L Fisher, historian, died
I am ditioning factor of his art
last year, aged 80.
They had no children.
I expect that's one wagan why he likes you.I, remember he was once quite REPORT from Berlin says silly about an enormous old
the Russlan private lady with wide nostrils
rhinoceros like a
who
La
HUMBLE OR NOT?
A mannequin displaying latest soldier is paid 3d, a day,' gets took what skin food do Sinner cohort of ad- of hamlets
models to the swells- When all I really wanted was
a boy and wedding belts.
Lly
I thought I'd be an actress; my
mother said. I shouldy. My father thought that
Elsie wam't half as good. They loved my imitations of
poor dagy Auntie Maud, And when I'done my cockney act, my Mum and Dad they Toared.
you uso?
Nband simply adored her not sure that the humility
M
things like Stonehenge or The Some of the Pilgrim rehear
a hall off the A look. Folksy himself. The
not pyramids. You never use lip-sals
He must also be careful to criticise his superiors in private, because there is a spy In every barrack-room.
were in
#
et
a
no leave, has. no. canteen, is kept on
on in the army years after ended, his call-up period has
I don't use any. can be sent to Siberia for mix-
ald this old lady. But the man's humility. ing with foreigners or grous- my husba ing, has to sing
and does not shade off at times JUST 4d. A COPY, He writes most of his music compulsory for being *80 natural
in a room the size of a small hate songs against the West unadomed. He said she remind- into whim. and listen to lectures on
barn which Ats his personality the ed him of unspoiled, enduring
FEER a time he began to so well that it might have been life of Stalini.
tailored by
Shepperton Holloway Road. Five mornings man who commonly turned up a week Williams motored over with the county set at Three decorator: Tudorishi gallery all festivals In peerless round at first-floor level, book- Nor do cows. Oh, are you from his Dorking home in a Choirs
Rolls-Royce that belonged to his black-and-white was now seen lined walls, winter logs in the going? Yes.
mother and spent from ten till about Dorking in boots tied up inglenook, primross bowi Good night, comrade. What
Oh, what a shame. Just when five listening with cupped car with string and a hat with the And tick am off in Parliament a wonderful day we have had. you might have told me all about as the producer tried, forlornly crown worn through. It rather littered worktable, and so on.
as if he was going to The old self – mistrust'`stlil like jolly Mrs B...
Each day seems more won- Queen Victoria's Jublice. Doing fear, to lick a noble concept looked
into
valid dramatic shope, At dwindle Into a back-to-the-coll gnaws. He goes to endinsa And wear them: daring sort of derful than the last.
anything on Friday?
1 p.m. he would take his singers crank. hate at angies fit to kill, I shall never tire of sten-
the way to With me photo in. the papers, ing to the life story of Then you must come to our for a meal across
The Williams yogue developed old friends before publie por beloved leader.
of those cafes where ger- Folks' Garden Party, one Old like Doctor Summerikilt.
I'm through
Although it is always the There'll be knitting competitions sers steam on marble counters in odd bursts. Twenty years formance. He has been seeking opiniona : on---technical But now
with prizes. and bacon and eggs are always after he had written and for other medicine; I'm going to be me game, I wish I could laten to and whist drives,
the goften it, the Linden Lea son18, points. for on the menu. Clearly,
60 years, But, his ét for years and years.
Even No doubt your wish will be The vicar and I are so keen on
making your last years your great man likes to pretend that suddenly taken up by granted .comrade. What do
he is an ordinary sort of fellow, baritone in the land,, begon genius is tough.
selling 25,000 coples a year,
friends cannot kill it. happlest; of our wonderful, (London Express Service) The pose deceives nobody. you thin Regimental Sergeant-Major?
I thought I'd take up politics
and be a giri M.P...
with
age, I've given up me politics; I've
given up the stage;
To the navy that I never join
ed "I've said me last jare- wells--
For all I ever wanted was a boy.
and wedding bells.
Just So story
MHE
story
our.
I think he has a kindly heart- beneath @rough exterior.
A rough exterior, comrade?
I meant St as a compliment, comrade. A rough, soldierly arterior. He also has a besult- It reminds me of Sergeant. ful voice. Thomas Lamb, 84-year- the crack and themes old Chelsea pensioner, who fell wonderful artillery.
aircraft while asleep in an Fleid-Marshal Sir William Slim wit?
was asking him questions about
supreme Indifference to It also reminds me time when I was
A
our
Do you also think he is a great
Undoubtedly, comrade.
the
e. Aupling, also refused, to see great-great-grandfather heard
me.
No.
T
overy
on
trouble trying out new scores on
MISS BROWN GOES TO PARIS
London. THAT shocking
TH
pseudonym,
"Le 8 Girls," behind which lurks
By Kenneth Pearson
L
his.
In pantomime. Last Christmas found her in the West End as a "village_boy,”··
Now things have changed.
Audition rooms are the same
the whole world over.
An air
The girls it around singly or in groups, in various degrees of nervous tension. Only the confident or the frozen- with-fear are silent.
of droopy melancholy pervades them.
The room. Into which.. Sonia
Road and Shaftesbury Avenue Only the large pictures on the audition rooms of Charing Crass weeks ago was no difcret
Florrie Ford, Gettle Gitans, dancers are, engaged for work wall of the famous of the pasto
Marie Lloyd and a vamp-like Greele Fields held out any promise for the future.
abroad,
A daughter of Dublin ed to live in her Paris flat. a back row of dubious his old campaigns, the
is a te. Yet when he said to minder that one of om- Recruit Ivan: "Do you know, beauty at the Doodlebury where she was born an un- Since then her administra my mother?" and Recruit Ivan Empire, is not for such as revealed number of years tive capacities have extend- pensations of old age is
VIP. sald "No, sir." and the sergeant Sonia Brown.
ago, Miss Bluebell moved to ed to the Sistina Theatre in the age of Rome and the Bocuf sur le of the major chouled: Then you'll
Miss Brown was born at Liverpool at
stayed Toit in. Brussels. a reporter soon know her blistering son," and was sent to interview Rud- you did not laugh with the Portsmouth, and followed three months and
In others.
the Fleet in the wake of there until 1980. An early
From time to time Miss Blue. at Burwash yard Kipling
end yearning for the bright bell pays a visit to London, Sussex.
That was because it was not a her naval father to who refused to
see new joke, comrade. My great-these last eight years at lights took her to Torquay, where in the dingy offices and Brown walked about three
sergeant-major
to that tower of respect But, in a local hostelry, Il-major say the same Rhyl, in North Wales. Now to Germany, and eventually
when Napoleon she has left for. Paris. found two ancient
road invaded our beloved country.
There, where (regardless ability, the Paris Folics Ber menders, Mr William Lavender I'm sorry you said that, com of the seasons) it is always gere. and Mr. George Stonestreet, rade. I shall have to report you. whose friendship was
Where shall I be sent, com- Bluebell time, she will join sought by the great man, but rade?
the young ladies who dance In those tres gay days of Here Miss Brown comes into who both regarded. Kipling not They say the first ten years at that famous and expen- the 80's when Mistinguett the pretty picture through an only as a person of no impor- in Sibéria are the worst. Another sive night spot, The Lido, and Buddy Bradle wore the advertisement in one of this immediate favourabe was toll. tance but a great nuisance. old any joke, comrade.
the boulevarila, country's dancing magazines Girls of medium height, who whose stage manager was toast of Exit other woman born Margaret Kelly and Miss Bluebell rose to the Her career up to that point had dream of the Bois de Boulogne they walk, their hair piled high has since been known as rank of captain at the hold little promise of the life of at night are and deceivers. ** In
lights,
on their heads, and on their feet whore previously Folles, Miss Blueboll.
Lessons at Rhyl's Glyndwr the highest heeled shoes they discipline, had been thought
were things can afford to buyin Secondary School to belong to school life, and to be tolerated while one dream-
Misa Bluebell, poilte, It was not unknown for Fifi ed of being an actress, and she
Lineup, girls," the "
•
eagerly
*
"Awmost every marnin' he
stop and arsk Tuis questions,**.. said Mr Lavender?""*
Mr
Nosey
"Ar, that eo do," said Stonestreet. "Proper
-what' ea.... in.”. Farker, that's
I asked: "What sort of ques- tions?
“Ol dunno,” said Mr Laven- der, "Ol never listen."
"No more do Ol,” sald .: Mr Stancatrect.
"According to a girl writing for the Peport
Other the Woman, who is truly seductive aiten of letion," "
diots often score skin food, and beauty aids. Wives are ad- vised to treat the situation with galety and a sense of humour.
Do
'She' had one great asset in her
A doctor called in at an to drop her statuesque foined the local theatre club, thoritative, is no one's fool. early illness thought that pose in the middle of a The trek to London followed. And don't forget to let your
and. Sonia joined the Interna
OW. long have you. known described her eyes. Today show and ask Lucillo how anal Ballet school at Kensing hair down and take your shoes Ho
my husband? Twenty years? Miss Bluebell is famous she was getting on with her ton in 1849. Later she appeared off first." Little groans of dis
you think I knew him throughout the Continent, fumper. swers do you, give him when I was a schoolgirl?
I said: "What sort
where her troupes of Eng-
as one of the persons who held appointment. up a spear in the third act of Her blue eyes travel down, tie . Not at all. But my husband hug
Bluebell's career was in fourth-rate ballot,
line with cold calculation, and The larst folme co drst me a ona most charming quality, Holish dancing girls are much
Realising she was too tall for without fall two or three, drain by the war, queption," said Mr Lavender, always so terribly nice to old sought after by foreign im- terrupted "Ol' Bald;" "Olīva. no time to people.
presarios with an oyo for, during which she was ure her talent, she moved to a schooling every muscle and nerve-for rotected with: whose curriculum embraced all height, are "talk to you,... Ol said: "... "Ölvė," Really? gut by wit on with me work, In fact, it's almost a vico will trim. figures" and "strict rested by the Germans", at: typos of; dancing, and in 1960'spelogioski, 7 da
Besançon, and finally allow Benia was able to take her pinge (Continued on Enes 7, Col. 4) him, When we tako a holiday |