• Introduction
• Editor’s Preface
• A Note on the Artist

Part One: Before the Music Programme

1. Yalding House
2. New Recruits
3. Artists (I)
4. Announcers and Presentation
5. Staff Accompanists
6. Artists (II)
7. Travels with a report on Schoenberg’s Die Jakobsleiter
8. All Change in the Middle – Invitation Concerts
9. The Lieder Recital
10. Artists (III)
11. Programmes
12. Words and Music
13. Training? What Training?
14. Oops!
15. At Last, the Music Programme
    

Part Two: Personalities

1. William Glock
2. Hans Keller
3. Harry Croft-Jackson with a note on Charles Ives
4. Robert Simpson
5. Leo Wurmser
6. Basil Lam
7. Deryck Cooke
8. Ralph Usherwood
9. Paul Hamburger
10. Susan Bradshaw
11. Stephen Hearst

Part Three: Composers

1. Luigi Dallapiccola
2. Hanns Eisler (not forgetting Mary Thomas)
3. Roberto Gerhard
4. In absentia: Franz Schmidt
5. Hugh Wood, Composer and Friend

Part Four: Performers

1. Walter Goehr
2. Heather Harper
3. John Shirley-Quirk, Michael Langdon
4. Elizabeth Harwood, Janet Baker
5. Fernande Kaeser
6. Teresa Berganza
7. Robert Tear
8. Alfredo Campoli, André Tchaikowsky
9. Lili Kraus
10. Margaret Price
11. Sheila Armstrong, Margaret Neville
12. Norma Burrowes

Part Five: … and After

1. Sixteen Years to a Page
2. An American Dimension
3. Imrat and Other Pandits
4. Michala Petri
5. Doris Soffel
   with a postcript: How It Looks Now
   

Part Six: The Making of a Music Producer
or Leo Black and How He Got That Way

1. Family Matters
2. Amersham
3. Don’t Mention the War
4. Cheltenham
5. Oxford
6. Before and After Vienna
7. London, 1958
   

Appendices

1. Nikos Skalkottas
2. Roberto Gerhard’s Concerto for Orchestra (1965)
   

• Biographical Note
  
  
• Index

see also:

• introduction
• publication details and contents