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Sir,Having recently returned from a concert tour which took us through fourteen countries of the Far East and back, may we offer for your appraisal a few observations which are not entirely irrelevant to some recent correspondence in your columns?1We went as British artists bringing mostly British music, and were soon made conscious of the tremendous interest in all branches of this country’s art, and of the enormous goodwill towards us, at any rate on the cultural level. Our welcome was touchingly warm and enthusiastic, but our visit was as a drop of water in the desert. On a tour such as ours you will meet with musicians, dancers, actors from every country but our own; Russians in Delhi, Austrians in Tokyo, Poles in Madras, and Americans all over South East Asia. Every government but our own realises the importance of cultural propaganda-it must, we suppose, be called that. Four years ago the English Opera Group visiting the Wiesbaden Festival with a complete company of twenty-four was, absurdly enough, considered the most costly Festival Company, and that in competition with a full-scale performance of’Aida’ sent at Italian expense from Rome. In Tokyo, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra was being flown out by the German Government. This year at Aldeburgh the Dutch Government is offering us, entirely free, a famous Dutch male voice choir. Examples could be multiplied. In Djakarta they had had Martha Graham’s Ballet Company and the Symphony of the Air, as well as a lot of similar stars, all at Uncle Sam’s expense.
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