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England in 1950 wrought many changes that could hardly have been foreseen by either dealers or manufacturers and certainly not by buyers. Prior to 1950 everything was neat and tidy, and easily managed. Manufacture was almost entirely in the hands of the Decca and E.M.I. Groups of companies which...

Cecil Gray in connection with the two hundredth anniversary of Haydn's birth,* "is in general a somewhat pointless and artificial custom which serves no useful purpose save perhaps that of now and then drawing attention to the merits of some unduly neglected or undeservedly forgotten minor figure...