Founded by the Earl of Harewood

Vol 17 No. 11

NOVEMBER 1966

Editor : H A R O L D R O SE NTH A L

Deputy Editor : A RT H u R J A c o B Overseas ews Editor : AL BLYTH

Editorial Board : PHILIP HOPE-\vAL LACE, WILLIAM MANN, ANDREW PORTER, DESMOND HAWE-TAYLOR, JOHN WARRACK

CONTENTS

T he ew Metropolitan by I ,ord Harewood A Memory af Violin by tephen Walsh

Hundred Years of 'Mignon' by John W. Klein Looking Ahead at the Royal Academy of Mu ic :

John Streets is int rviewed by Ian Blyth OMI G EVE T - · S PPLEM T

in cluding plan fo r Belgium , zechoslovakia, ranee, Hungary, Ital y, a nd Germany· BB Broadca t 'We hear that .. .' and Opera Calendar o ember- Decemb r ot so much a 'Rin g' by Harold Rosenth a l

(and other record review ) gk - ot Modern Enough? by Kurt Honolka a nd o er sea repo rt fro m Germany, America, Au tra lia, Italy, ew Z ea land, orway Bri ef Chronicl es from Austria , Germ any (Ea t and West) ,

Ita ly, weden. Yugoslavia

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Opera ifty Y ea rs Ago .. . And wenty-Fi ve Years Ago

Mapleso n Liv es Again by Will iam Mann

Lo nd on Opera Diar y includin g review of 'The Qu en of Spade '

at adler's Well

G ra in t Evan Join the 'Welsh· by Arthur Jacob

Liverpool 'Lucretia' a nd other out -of-London events

At the Proms

Reader · Letters

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