Murder Accomplished Rutland Boughton's 'The Queen of Cornwall' - impresses ROBERT ANDERSON '... a brave attempt ...'

Rutland Boughton received a fair number of letters from Bernard Shaw. The first (1912) could not have been more discouraging: 'I loathe your music. It isn't music. It is all skeleton in armor [a reference to the composer's setting of Longfellow's ballad], rangle jangle bangle, with nothing but old bones inside, and these not articulated.' Yet Shaw warmed considerably to his operatic efforts at Glastonbury (with piano accompaniment), considered his communism half-baked, but was still corresponding in 1949...

RUTLAND BOUGHTON

CORNWALL

UNITED KINGDOM