Who would think that with World War II still raging in 1945, the Manila Symphony Orchestra was actually organizing a concert? Herbert Zipper, the conductor, had been imprisoned earlier by the Japanese ...

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In an all-Russian programme in the Ulster Hall on Friday there was a wide range of moods and music, from the familiar to the ...