Benny Green

INTRODUCTION Dilys Powell Images moving in black and white or colour on a screen at the end of a darkened room: that is the cinema. The images are shadows of a reality which is itself a fake. But they talk, sing, dance, fight, suffer, make love and die. And they stir the spectator....

Introduction To begin the introduction to an encyclopcdia with the statement that facts are overrated and often irrelevant may seem perverse and paradoxical; yet the response to music is so much a matter of emotion and intuition that it is true to say that for the average listener, at any rate,...