ORCHESTRA
MUSIC AND DRAMA
Philharmonic. By Thomas Russell. Hutchinson. 180 pp. Through Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. The organisation of a symphony orchestra; conducting and conductors; building programmes and repertoire; the place of the orchestra in national life and art; the policy, management, and material conditions necessary to secure it that place—Mr Russel] describes, discusses, and demands. He is not an aesthetic visionary. See the chapter on “The Perfect Orchestra”; consider what was done, under stress of war, to reorganise the London Philharmonic. Mr Russell's experience convinces him, not only that the State should “make orchestral music safe for democracy.” but that it need not be financially afraid to do so. Demoracy is as ready to pay for this music «s to hear it. SHAW Bernard Shaw: Art and Socialism. By E. Strauss. Gollancz. 126 pp. (BAnet.) lldr Strauss sets out to show that Wiaw s plays record his development as a socialist thinker: one whose dramatic imagination has outstripped the original impulses of Fabian democracy. The analysis is careful and often illuminating; but to feel that it is worth while one perhaps needs to share Mr Strauss's conviction that Shaw is “the greatest playwright of our time" ,
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23804, 25 November 1942, Page 2
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