1992 AND ALL THAT
Elgar, Rossini and Thomas Tallis are subjects for any season. Others who featured in the earliest editions of this column, when it appeared in the first issue in 1992, were more of the moment.
And what a year it was. The times they were a-changing, much as they had been back in 1963, when Bob Dylan wrote that celebrated lyric and Philip Larkin raised two cheers for the brave new world of sexual liberation.
Larkin called his poem. After the Windsor fire and numerous other well-publicised royal , the Queen dubbed 1992 her . Where the arts were concerned, the year was a bit of both.
