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[email protected] 4 Lulworth Close, Halesowen, B63 2UJ 01384 566383 VOLUME TWELVE, NUMBER ONE, MARCH 2008 Editor: Ken Ward Managing Editor: Raymond Cox. Associate Editors: Peter Palmer, Crawford Howie, Nicholas Attfield In this issue On Bruckner and Buses ‘Brucknerthon’ proposal page 2 When 46 year-old Bruckner stayed in London in August 1871, he was much taken by the double-decker omnibuses. They Concert reviews page 3 would have been horse-drawn by two horses, and identified by route description and destination rather than numbers. In the week New CD listing & reviews page 12 he had off between his recitals at the Royal Albert Hall and those The recorded history of at the Crystal Palace, he went sight-seeing, clutching his guide Bruckner’s 4th Symphony book, Grieben’s London und Umgebung (London and its by Howard Jones page 14 surroundings), and was especially interested in the Tower of Book reviews by London, of which he obtained a detailed description. “The awful Crawford Howie: Bruckner prisons,” suggests Max Auer, “satisfied his inclination towards -Ikonographie Teil 3 and things horrific, and in his imagination he painted for himself all Bruckner Jahrbuch the mental tortures of those that languished therein.” 1 2001-2005 page 18 Auer also tells the story of his return late from his first Anton Bruckner, St Florian visit to the Royal Albert Hall, peering out of the bus trying to and Contrapuntal Tradition recognise ‘Muster Hotel’, Seyd’s German guesthouse at 30 by Paul Hawkshaw page 22 Finsbury Square, whose name he’d forgotten, only to be rescued by a Viennese barber who had shaved him and recognised him: The Early Compositional History of Bruckner's Fourth “Herr Professor!” he shouted, and led him off the bus.