THE FORERUNNERS OF SCARLATTI, BACH, AND HANDEL

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21414, 5 March 1935, Page 8

THE FORERUNNERS OF SCARLATTI, BACH, AND HANDEL

TO TH» BDITOB OJT TUB PRESS. Sir, I regret again having to disagree with Mr Stanford. In my letter of Saturday I quoted his actual words, referring to each matter under discussion, and I maintain that-1 kept strictly to each point. I wrote because I felt very strongly indeed that Mr Stanford's article was a gross injustice to English music, and incidentally I pointed out several amazing misstatements. Mr Stanford regards this as an "extension" of his article, but it was really a contradiction of almost every statement he made. To leave it to the "common sense of readers" to discriminate between the truth and the false, when the latter is presented lo them in the columns of a newspaper of high standing, is surely -asking too much. It is a duty we owe to "the public that at least the accepted facts of history should be given to I hem correctly and without distortion.

This is my last word on the subjecc. I. am quite content to leave the matter in the hands of your readers.— Yours, etc., JOHN C. BRADSHAW. Canterbury College, March 4, 1935.