1950-04-01 — Page 11

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

Lerve 35

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This is the romantle notion of The compnger, and is represented by the mare of a man apart and sodbey, withdrawn from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

1

is

fart remembered may- ador all art 15 l'aily on-

stainment,

}

Briten bar

Never

hat

forentien

a

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

11

'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:

*་་

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}

,.༥*t1 very

• 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

*

な

趱

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.

2.12.