The remarkable summer festival of music and drama at Glastonbury, to the development of which Mr Rutland Boughton had devoted his energies for some years before the war, is now restored to its former activity and public performances began on Monday. The assembly room was crowded on Monday night for the masque of Cupid and Death, by James Shirley, 1653, with the music of Mathew Locke and Christopher Gibbons.
The work had been prepared for this occasion by Mr Edward J Dent, and the musical performance, which included a small stringed orchestra and choir off the stage, was conducted by Mr W H Kerridge. That entails a very complicated ensemble. We have the actors on the stage with spoken parts and occasional song both