recreates soprano Florence Foster Jenkins and tells Judith Monk why... By arrangement with Michael Codron, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre is presenting Glorious! by Peter Quilter from 2 to 17 September, starring Maureen Lipman, who will be adding the unique and even controversial character...

Maureen Forrester J. S. Bach: Cantatas 53 and 170, excerpts from Mass in B minor, D. Scarlatti: Salve regina. Heiller, organ; Wiener Solisten, Heiller; I Solisti di Zagreb, janigro. Texts and translations. Amadeus 7010 (Allegro, dist.) "GRAND DAME OF SONG" Lieder by Brahms...

Mollie Hunter is by general consent Scotland's most distinguished modern children's writer…. [She] is read with pleasure not only in her own country or by the offspring of expatriate Scots, but by legions of young children whose prior knowledge of Celtic legend is nonexistent, and by older readers whose acquaintance with Scots history is at best rudimentary. (p. 109) The fact is that one cannot talk about Mollie Hunter without talking about Scotland. If one finds her work parochial, one...

[It was] at the insistence of my two young sons that I wrote my first children's book, they being much charmed with two short stories I had written for them in a style which was then new to me. There was an old, old device, however, at the heart of this style; the device on which I have since hung all the books my publishers call fantasies, and which I have borrowed from Celtic folk-lore.

It was providence that the book of Mollie Hunter's I read last was A Sound of Chariots. It is the author's answer to the questions that build up in covering the range of her works. She is a most compelling storyteller, yet sometimes one senses she is having a butterfly's troubles with its chrysalis in her use of the formulas of children's fiction. A Sound of Chariots is an emotional autobiography apparently and an apologia…. The movement of Mollie Hunter's work is f...