Shaw's Music: The Complete Musical Criticism in Three Volumes, Volume 3Dodd, Mead, 1981 - Music |
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... Shaw's history of English music is quite correct . There is one man who might have done great things in the direction Mr Shaw has indicated- Sir Henry Bishop . When at Drury Lane he tried to copy Mozart and Beethoven . Mr Shaw's final ...
... Shaw's history of English music is quite correct . There is one man who might have done great things in the direction Mr Shaw has indicated- Sir Henry Bishop . When at Drury Lane he tried to copy Mozart and Beethoven . Mr Shaw's final ...
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The Complete Musical Criticism in Three Volumes Bernard Shaw Dan H. Laurence. But first of all let me set Mr Shaw's mind at rest on one point , and apologize in connection with another . Mr Shaw rightly opines that I gave him " express ...
The Complete Musical Criticism in Three Volumes Bernard Shaw Dan H. Laurence. But first of all let me set Mr Shaw's mind at rest on one point , and apologize in connection with another . Mr Shaw rightly opines that I gave him " express ...
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... Shaw's other most familiar trick is to paint a gross caricature of his adversary's opinions , and then argue , not against the man , but against the caricature . I tell Mr Shaw , for example , that plenty of musicians besides myself ...
... Shaw's other most familiar trick is to paint a gross caricature of his adversary's opinions , and then argue , not against the man , but against the caricature . I tell Mr Shaw , for example , that plenty of musicians besides myself ...
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