... opera-house staff leaning out of their offices to watch. A red sash was wrapped under one of her arms as a sling. Then she was gently raised by a mechanical arm from a lorry, until we had tllis surreal vision of her great, rounded, bronze body suspended in ...

... significant sacred composers of his age, yet whenever we hear his comparatively rarely performed Vespers or the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, we are given pause for thought. The composer certainly appears to have been casual about his Christian beliefs ...