Happiness as a Subversive Activity: An Interview with Ivan Szendro on Commedia Dell'Arte as Healing & Resistance in Communist Hungary
This is a recent interview conducted on the theme of "polis as Muse" for an academic journal.
This interview with Hungarian actor and shaman Ivan Szendro examines the role of folk theatre performance art in the... more
This interview with Hungarian actor and shaman Ivan Szendro examines the role of folk theatre performance art in the tradition of commedia dell'arte as a vital form of creative self-healing and political resistance in Hungary during the Soviet Occupation.
Adrian Boult, Thomas Russell, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra Communist Witch-Hunt of 1952.
Paper given at one of the Music in British Society seminars at the Institute of British History, Senate House, London, 2003, chaired by Cyril Ehrlich..
In 1952 the London Philharmonic Orchestra sacked its highly admired and successful orchestra manager, Thomas Russell,... more In 1952 the London Philharmonic Orchestra sacked its highly admired and successful orchestra manager, Thomas Russell, because of his openly communist connections. Boult's role in this scandal is examined, using public documents together with an aural account made by Frederick Riddle, principal viola and deputy chairman of the orchestra at the time.

