A Bax revival would be music to my ears | Brief letters

By Guardian Staff · The Guardian Opinion

Arnold Bax | Country diary | Thatcher toilet roll | Permanent secretaries | Daylight shrubbery Thanks for highlighting the shameful neglect of Arnold Bax in our musical life ( It’s unfashionable, wild and wilful…, 22 April ). And the BBC is guilty of this too, occasionally allowing Tintagel and smaller works on air or in a Prom. If conductors would follow the efforts of Bryden Thomson and Vernon Handley, and throw a symphony or two into their programmes, a whole new audience would emerge. There is a vast, almost cinematic, visual quality in Bax’s music. Peter Davis Wester Skeld, Shetland • What a wonderful evocation of a chilly spring morning by Mark Cocker ( Country diary, 21 April ), celebrating the interconnectedness of the world of birdsong and confirming that every journey in space is also one in time. Joe Unsworth Newcastle upon Tyne Continue reading...