Why Benjamin Britten keeps on composing
T
NEVILLE CARDUS on MUSIC
witp
THE production of yet status, known to Mozart,
another work by Ben- regarded himself primarily as a an architect, a jamin Britten (the craftsman, like Spring Symphony, played dancing master, a sculptor, part for the first time in Eng of the social service, ready to and recently by the Lon- attend to a commission to write a 3 commission te don Philharmonic Orches. Requiem or tra), is certain to set the write a piece for a musical elocit tongues wagging of those
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Likewife lil Shakespeare folk who think that a com-
a workman worthy of poser, or any other creative is hire it the
theatre, no did beware of Dickens. artist, should prodigality. keep to
with
his
his supplements Ivory Tower, and after giv-
ing birth to a masterpiece There is no doubt
monthly
danger in
one year, retire into long the laboure of turning-nut stuff brooding silence, confident- for creations --- Gebraucħmuzik, ly assumed by his friends to Hut one of the established men De indiestive of further of genius trem, on the whole, ta
God's in
good have theiven on conditions which geslation time.
the
This is the romantle notion of The compnger, and is represented by the mare of a man apart and sodbey, withdrawn from
patent vigl world, keeptat a before the temple of the muse with popsidy a woman to attract De walten the divine farrie,
The legend becane areeptable in the 19th century, when, after Beethoven, componert more one man pimert at Celf-expression.
functive ne If Wanner wone
four or five the temple for years after he had cnporeil Lobeornm It was because he was working out to thegies upon shley the lug is based, and seriting the libertti-backward: "
related their visions to the prac ties] everyday needs of their particular fort of entertainment.
Entertainment
AND though
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1950.
DAB and FLOUNDER -by WALTER
New Books by George Malcolm
Three
men in a truck (and a woman!)
earlag through their outer skin
of British prejudice and disdain when they pick up Max and the Princess.
Max is an American soldier
German In battle and desorted. He is pure The Princess. Italian by race.
who has killed a
Italian by marriage, is American
Fonder poWIT RICHARD LLEWELLYN
Husband and Wives
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'CAN I FORGET A HOOLIGAN?”
"THE FAILURE of shake expresses friendliness, a my marriage I have mother's kiss her affection for no shadow of doubt ber child. Was due to ignor- ance, deliberately conduced to by parents, school, and Church at the time of my youth," writes Mrs A.
To
"A 12 I was brutally assault- ed by the respected' father of one of my school friends. this day a physical [loathing" and "distrust
remain. In it
late, after the birth
A FEW FLOWERS FOR Italian countryside on the edge
SHINER. By Richard of death by anrvation.
The vast Llewellyn. Michael Joseph.
misery is already 10s. 6d. 398 pages. THREE first-class books the middle of Jummary! It looks like being an early spring.
First, this new novel by the author of How Green by birth Was My Valley. Scene: he- Somehow she and Snowy don't hind the lines in Italy. seem to get un. The truth is, they Principal character: Snowy, have fallen in love.
An event hard to credit, given the truck driver. Unheroic, the temperamental differences? unimaginative, capable of Maybe so, but Lewellyn has the With a handful of mouth to rising to the heights when fender power of imagination to do the job, but with the cunning
this of centuries
Dutch to help. win your
conviction for moved by indignation or
improbable but lovely thing. hydraulic engineers must seal pity.
raps in the sen-walls through TT not too late, which, every tide 800 million but t
may be gallons of North Sca water
hard, very
Begin by nemiering that you are furgle round and beneath beds of 40,000 people.
That
Is the story of Roll Back from being alone in the (x-
periences the Sea.
have been Holland is a drama as well ag a country. This is the latest act that drama, Its heres arc Engineer
Taramet Van
Snowy is off to visit Shiner's grave. Shiner was his pal, whic! is why Snowy resents the fact that it is coming along too. Bill is First Army and Lanen- shire: Snowy, Eighth Landon.
They settle down to a kind of Intermit hostility 20 Rosle, the
WHEN Rosle, the truck, is Solen, sention tightens with
in
thu
of two children, for me ever to come to
Sexual union expresses a love that hoa pledged liself, from the
very nature of the act, to the setting up of a family, in which children all And security and affection from both parents,
by
Canon
HUGH
feel differently? } have already and nervous breakdown" WARNER.
through.
you
re-
far
ar
Only wrong Ideas, lack of considera- lon on the part of a husband, can spoil the perexiness of all that is involved.
Find a wlso coun- sellor. Just to talk about your fears may help to dispel them. Daly while they aro hidden in your sub- conscious mind can they do you damage.
"IF MY WIFE nags at me all day and night, who should I sto?"
nska Air B. "A man has
If hooligans on a Bank Holi- the
right to happiness, after all, day destroy the beauty of and it I throw or over, would
truck, carries them through an armis ted by an, Max crossbeul contrarior Berend Bon
a eck. The trip through Italy and turn into ugly melodrama,
Harle's abductors prove to be a dangerous gang of terrorists, dozen from balt decenter
evil. Cockney Dintroit. Snowy, and-wort of all-the Princers Dincott, K are kidnapped:
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tries to hie nun nay methods, petrade the men to join him.
Bach, for mufficient rem, learns to hate Diocatt parvifon-
tely.
Byron's Bages and persons
M
mysterious tress of hair
MARKING the 162nd an- tie with couvaites picad up at
Waterlon. niversary of Byron's
Murray NOT CLUB-FOOTED
John
fort, be how compared with But hour Teethoven sweated
on the la- e and per Bilete aver Be notehnok; and his
interet of pro- date pleasure munn. Je maintained a
tople ed averatte musied in 1- Beth output.
offer 1341 exploited his superb and copále- ;
vnin tented technique in everive superior war. He has resenteret the offert Intended on the Silener, whether he heath, 1...n writing a Spople symphony, puldishes a new two-volume Iter Grime or the almost edition of his letters and H commuma) Let's Make an Opera | Journals, edited by Peter
Quemell. There, of course, danger in te to write) commpate -versatility, unless the perral or paint, know that inspiration creative power
that ruch onty by cruelest will reu] activity and aleorption in the resides in Britten?
tiven medtuin.
Inspiration
WHOEVER has
trieel even
I strong
Who power
raty
TIS
the
Iomeone
-who
the
far eine workers piece of countryside with liter une blame me if I married their weaving
Junttresses of and me, what then? Why, the whit I want?"
could give mo brushwork, a few officers of the iter a cleared away, and the Royal Engineers, and hundreds
[booligaitis arê prevented from of dour, foiting Netherlanders
damage again. THE Nubody after reading this book doing will over Souls at a Dutch dyke BEAUTY REMAINS to be en
without option. He will remem-joyed.
I when under overinkes the Cockney it comes from a manter the trick of the deceitful sea, Here is the sure and sweep Itah villagers, of a great theme, graphically
of
veopeful
natural beatsty
of sex
1
10 said sol Who said that Ing a right to happiness? A burglar hag as much "right to happiness" as you, but we take good care to se that he le not allowed frea
and gloriously presented, a bluer and marriage har, for you, been rein to his "right""
The
savage marred by thoughtless parents, who told you nothing, and by a
epie of vile weather. disappointment and final joy.
No one has an absolute right
A herole page of heslory is man's brutality. You grew up to happiness. Other people are
suitable
el with rubbish in your mind that always involved and the effect celebrated with
of our action upon them is what quence, Eloquence like that of
of
the rubbish-those
I who set fre to the coach in which Dincott is about to res "married (for the eighth time).
Snowy tries to save the wreich. No Kase The mob i implacable, "Wellington" bursts, Weighted with lead at the incut and his young bride the
horribly. heel, daprove, the popular iden|
A theatrical-and hurried- Pastor Heikes's sermon--the one Warpet it, picked up mostly that he had a club foot. Experts {amax to a story which has a quired sermon of all the good from older school frients, Get really matters.
of delivered on the day clear dedure an "Achilles heel" injury; he quality of wistful humanity, ale were smashed. You wrong ideas which asociate sex ing sacriflees of his pleasures in No one can live without mak- The Muray house, Albeniric muciern treatment could have wry humour, even if Llewellyn
the dykes Street, has a wonderful rolice- emned it.
it somewhere near with hapurity, Fundameḥtally, some degree. I only know of
ernous in tom of Byron telics. I had the
There is his gold riut shaped holds some of his army fun just may rank
one place where you are thinking of your hus-
it might be a shade too long. And a lyrical that king seeing it as a two-headed nake with feeting for the beauty privilege of
and the fiction whlet opens Gait's Annals
a right to band as though he were "the said that man has of the Park. Ambled in the rooms the poet concealed famined when
happiness, and that is Heaven father of your
wchool friend. bed known
where his he wore it in Greece, in case of agion of life, So well.
Llewelyn's writing, all the
But all men
not moral frienn after his death solemnly emergency,
hooligans. One box brims with sees of time, quivers with the sense of
something
vividly. wrote, work, ted; convenirs hulle nvelopen each holding almost painfully, in a strong
is lows and friendships, lock of
some friend's (usually
Hight. creating a strong illuson of his woman's) hair, its owner, or
in America. RICHARD LLEWELLYN s donor, very presence.
carefully namd exceptor in Pembrokeshire. M 16 he in case where Byron had sent to aly end worked in an
Terlati hunter following this with There were the bound manu- written, "I
ivmember can't
and Atv prosturiion, scripts of Don Juan and Chille whose this was, but it was about rapture, fifth work and reporting when MAC
eritrai
Harold, mainly in his own free,
(he added a date) hand. Sothe sheets Mandares are hard to seek, when Cerately
"Most astonishing was a magni- ROLL BACK THE SEA. with interlinings cont trest of
chestnut
hair. By A. Den Doolaard. that young blonda are roneity: Ukorawied
Billing one long box. It would Heinemann. 15.9. 414
· have reached below the wearer's any sucking doves at the semili-crosons, almost illegible. te of yerday, when personali Hundreds of his letters filled
pages. There
H. has indeed composed such Sombols once said that the diversity of murcie, and has for differens between the amatetis long been in the fashion, that it and the profesional is that the precitable he will live to
only
with the fire! reaction again amateur 1 able to work when in the mood, but the pro- feesional, however he may be feeling, will get on with hir job.
once asked A doing woman Brahm, how it happens that he could write ruet, Beautifid dow movements."
The pulle, them that way," he replies!
woh-
With Britten the art of pation Roes back to an earlier
Firm
T
na
taste apl
buru his memoirs, were things
-
response apourently boxes and drawers. reperk to pass univer: al
Surprising was the intancy of judiments, who shall excape.
collection. calipang?
--(ston farers Bernica}
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• DEN BOOLAARD escaped to Holland during the war, lie took with the free Dutch and berxutense post in the deles operation ef Walcheren, This is his first monet ta he translated into English, Now Beer
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Rethink it all out. The act
fof creation in ringe the point at which we have the
highest of all privileges.
THE DEATH OF A GOD. By Osbert Sitwell. Mac- millan, s. 6d. 247 pages, The method of such creation E creative sympathy which is divinely plained; it can be so bad men and Sitwell brings to those nine-mishandled by
his stories-specially
wonen as to become mirched understanding of old women for and mullied; but in itself it is
them
lingering 1)
WORLD COPYRIGHT
tren
knees. Who was she? is thing to show.
o⠀ passion is not yet the God-given way. But its no free Antwerp, the Alles whom usurint beauty, owingly alive That to win Walcheren, His wedding and young as though warn but Batch island. To smooth the way favour of extraordinary charm.
rone lovely girl. vrsterday by his slut, his gold was profoundly moving.
warfront. tooth-pick, even a fragment of curtain from his wedding bed,
the spent-give
-fiordun Express Servicei
of the troops, the RAF smashed the dyker atki drowned Bistand.
the
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
RESERVED -(London Express Service)
We are so made that every emotion needs a physical way at expressing self. A hand-
Even then, happiness comes as a by-prodnet of what we are duing in the path of duty; you never find happiness by setting out to get
WHY does your wife nag? Is it because y4u are st:ch an
ungel of a husband?
A woman
nags because sho As spiritually
unsatisfied. often 11.3 110L in marriage, 赫 is unsatisfied becauso woman her husband has no imagina- tion, little tenderness, no sense
tries of humour, and
to bo "reasonable" with Her whca what she wants is spontaneous affection.
Labour-Saving Devices
By KEMP STARRETT
London Express Service)
THE
WEAK BACK.
RACING ← FORM.
A JOB... IF YOU CAN GET ELECTED OR APPOINTED TO IT...IS OFTEN A LABOR-SAVER.
THE CHRONIC HEADACHE,
COPR. 1950 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORP. TM-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED,
WELL, I'M LOOKIN'F'RA JOB, AIN'T
A COMFORTABLE CHAIR AND THE WANT-AD PAGES.
TOUR-INCH HEELS SAVE A GAL A LOT OF WORK.... LIKE GOING ON
A LONG JUKE OR HELPING IN THE GARDEN -.--
"WHEN ARE YOU GOIN' TO
TAKE OUT THE ASHES, WHEN
TELEVISION.
UTAIR
TO ME.
{DISCRIMIN&TIO,
A GOOD, STRONG WIFE, AND A TOUGH CONSCIENCE...........
A SIGH
ON A STICK.
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