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A monthly report on the arts, science, and politics abroad
Compiled by Alan Pryce-Jones
This month's Foreign Review consists of three contributions. First a report by Christopher Hill , Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, on the teaching of English history in the U.S.S.R. Mr. Hill, himself a Marxist, has recently returned from Russia where he met a number of leading Soviet historians. The other two contributions are a comment by A. Fernandez Cruz on the scientific aspects of increasing age; and a talk by Martin Cooper , with musical illustrations, en the Tenth Symphony of Shostakovich, which has not yet been heard in this country.

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Pryce-Jones
Unknown:
Christopher Hill
Unknown:
A. Fernandez Cruz
Talk By:
Martin Cooper

Illustrated talk by Robert Irwin
The Irish tenor John McCormack , who died in 1945, made a world-wide reputation as a singer of opera, lieder, and ballads.
Illustrations (from his recordings) include ' 0 sleep, why dost thou leave me? ' from Handel's Semele, Oh cease thy singing ' by Rachmaninov, and ' II mio tesoro' from Mozart's Don Giovanni.

Contributors

Talk By:
Robert Irwin
Tenor:
John McCormacK
Unknown:
Don Giovanni.

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