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Still Young And Green

John Bayley CHEKHOV ON THE BRITISH STAGE edited by Patrick Miles CUP, £30, pp. 270 hatred of the modern stage receives a good deal of justification and support from this......

A Great Unsung Wagnerian

Fiona Maddocks REGGIE: THE LIFE OF REGINALD GOODALL by John Lucas Julia MacRae Books, £18.99, pp. 253 A bout a decade ago, a cellist friend used to claim that he only continued......