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[email protected] 4 Lulworth Close, Halesowen, B63 2UJ 01384 566383 VOLUME SEVENTEEN, NUMBER ONE, MARCH 2013 Associate Editors Dr Crawford Howie & Dr Dermot Gault In this issue: Scholarship and Vandalism Anton Bruckner: a non-pathological view Not many letters and emails are addressed to the editor, and angry on his personality and implications for his ones are indeed a rarity. But one of a few received from those approach to the task of composing. who are unhappy about recent published criticisms of the editorial by Malcolm Hatfield Page 3 work of Robert Haas, and of Deryck Cooke and Robert Versions and Editions: Simpson’s writings about editions, was phrased in such heated Deryck Cooke’s Contribution Clarified (Part two) passion that it verged upon the libellous. The writer perceives in by Dermot Gault Page 13 some of our contributors “incontinent personal dislike” of Cooke, Eckstein, Steiner - and Bruckner sustained by “repulsive prejudices”, “nauseating views”, they are by Raymond Cox Page 23 part of a “Mafia”, an “anti-everyone-else clique” conducting a Bruckner on the Terraces “vendetta”, to quote just a selection from the ample repertoire of by Raymond Cox Page 25 invective employed. This would seem a little intemperate and, given the lack of supporting evidence, unpublishable. Book Reviews Frederick Edward Harris Jr. But what it does display is the strength of gratitude, Seeking the Infinite: The Musical Life of appreciation and emotional attachment there is for the work of Stanisław Skrowaczewski review by Ken Ward Page 27 those three great Brucknerians, Haas, Cooke and Simpson.