No. 507: The winners
Trevor Grove reports: Competitors were incited to submit sextract from a newspaper retort, critical review or davertisement rendered articularl} apposite by the occurrence of a few (pubelishable) printing errors. . . . As com- petitors are well aware, once you've got going on this kind of caper it's remarkably difficult to stop; after all, John Lennon is making a nice sideline out of it, not to mention the Old Vic. But though there was a good deal of self-indul- gence some entries demonstrated commendable economy in slipping in the howlers.
Two guineas to J. M. Crooks, and three guineas to N. J. Rock who showed a little more restraint : Blarney Clinic
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And five guineas to G. J. Blundell, who came much the nearest to providing us with
some genuine (and pertinent) misprints: The unfortunate fact that Guttfried Schnell broke a spring in the middle of the slow move- ment during his slaying of the Beethoven Violin Concerto at the Festival Hall probably tended to prejudice critical opinion against the per- formance as a whole. Nevertheless, it could be fairly said that during the first movement he played the wrong tote so often as to run the risk of losing what was virtually a race with the orchestra, while his lowing was sometimes so eccentric as to cause consternation. The slow movement, apart from the unfortunate con- tretemps already referred to, was perfectly flayed; but in the final Rondo, Herr Schnell's lingering was far from decisive and hammer- like, and his double-slopping was at times positively slovenly. Even so, Herr Schnell's playing has good qualities. His tone in the lower register is unusually yellow, while in the higher it is queer but never merely sweet.
Finally, a guinea to B. Brocklesby, who qualifies for a well-deserved prize as a com- petitor not previously among the winners.
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