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The Pagan Ecstatic: Arnold Bax

I notice a curious error in your issue of December 16. In discussing a concert of compositions by Arnold Bax and various continental composers [Szymanowski, Schoenberg, Conrad Beck, Norbert von Hannenheim, Hindemith, Poulenc and Stravinsky] you state that: “Arnold Bax is clearly in place in this distinguished company.” I take it that the sentence was meant to express that the other composers were not unworthy of a place beside Arnold Bax. Personally I do not consider that most of the names on that programme are worthy to stand beside Bax, but this of course is a matter of opinion. —Ralph…

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