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...more idyllic moods. But now the critics are cheering the "Proms"−and so is a new set of fans. This summer Albert Hall is echoing to 50 works entirely new to Prom audiences−some of them classical, some contemporary, but all demonstrating what Guardian Critic Neville Cardus calls "the wild, bold and enterprising throw of Mr. Clock's net." As Cardus and his fellow critics are happily aware, Net Thrower Clock−of the British Broadcasting Corp.−is, at 54, the most influential man dispensing music in Britain...
Last year he composed and played some first-rate background music for the British film Genevieve-although for U.S. consumption his name was left off the credits. The Manchester Guardian's Neville Cardus compared him to Paganini: "It would be hard to prove that anybody playing any instrument in the world of music today plays with more than Mr. Adler's art and virtuosity...
Headlined the Manchester Guardian: MIRACLE OF FAITH AT LORD'S. The stately London Times began its story: "Out of darkness, through fire into light. Thus did England yesterday rise like some phoenix from the ashes . . ." But best of all, what the Guardian's Cricket Critic Neville Cardus once called England's "proper spirit of hostility" was ablaze again...
Editor Scott was impressed, promised Cardus the top music spot. But Cardus, never robust, suffered a breakdown. To get him out in the fresh air, the paper sent him to cover the first postwar (1919) cricket matches at the Old Trafford field. He hit a century, and the Guardian appointed him regular "Cricketer...
Though he would rather write about batons than bats, Cardus thinks that cricket expresses, in microcosm, the whole English character. "If everything else in this nation of ours were lost but cricket," he writes, "it would be possible to reconstruct [from it] all the eternal Englishness which has gone to the establishment of [the] Constitution and the laws...