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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20050111
Author:VICTOR LEWIS-SMITH

Grange Hill BBC1 ANTON Chekhov - that happy-gol ucky cheeky chappie of Russian literature, who briefly earned a crust as a newspaper hack - once remarked that "columnar journalism is more difficult and miserable a task than dissecting the sex organs of a flea."

He's right, because it's a job that demands meticulous accuracy, so I was astonished when my colleague Norman Lebrecht recently launched a scathing attack on the late Michael Tippett ("an inglorious exemplar of English amateurism ... parochial ... a British taste, and none the better for that") .

According to Lebrecht, the composer's ...

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