Volume 29, Number 5 · April 1, 1982
Dr. Shaw's Music Lessons
By Edward Rothstein
Shaw's Music: The Complete Musical Criticism
edited by Dan H. Laurence
Dodd, Mead, Volume III, 910 pp., $150 (the set)
It has been more than a hundred years since the twenty-year-old George Bernard Shaw attended a performance of a barely tolerable opera, Pauline. He accompanied George John Vandeleur Lee—his mother's voice teacher and surrogate husband—and wrote a long, picayune, and tedious account of the proceedings. Lee passed it on to the editor of The Hornet under his own name.
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