... Behaviour (Australian Broadcasting Corporation for BBC World Service, Saturday, October 11), a tone deaf woman's murder of a Beethoven sonata led to her own death. The intrusion of Lois Rowntree (Judy Farr) into the neatly-ordered life of piano teacher and ...

... condition ing which removed the violent impulse from his brain. In a Pavlovian side-effect, music, especially his beloved Beethoven, was also rendered intolerable. Without the arty, visual effects, which were so much a hallmark of Stanley Kubrick's six ...

... the searingly gloomy epitaph of a man who felt he had nothing to live for. Its three acts parallel the three movements of Beethoven's Tempest Piano Sonata and music is important in this play both as a scene setter and in its own right. For this production ...

... unsympathetic. As a result the piece became ponderous and heavy-going The Scottish group was to end its French concert with Beethoven's Ode to Joy the anthem of a united Europe. But there was a certain painfulness in the much underlined con trast between ...