Musical and Non-Musical Journals

This page lists the journals in which open letters and articles (or reviews) by Sorabji were published. In view of showing how his tastes and interests developed, the journals are listed in the order in which he began to send them material, with an indication of the first and last years. The list consists of two types of journals:

Links to the current websites of the publications still in existence are given.

Brief annotations are provided for most publications, with details having a link with acquaintances of Sorabji or people in whom he was interested. There is no attempt here to comment on his reading choices in the case of publications or associations that may cause one to raise an eyebrow, and conclusions about his political opinions should not be automatically inferred from the titles or attitudes of publications in which his writings appeared.

A blank entry under “Last Item” means that the year is the same as that for “First Item”. Conjectural years are printed in italics (many items being known only as undated clippings in Frank Holliday’s collection of Sorabjiana in the Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji Collection at McMaster University).

The number of letters and articles located so far is given in the third and fourth columns, with brackets used when some items are known only through references in correspondence. The number of extant carbon copies of open letters that Sorabji sent to Frank Holliday but for which no published version could be found suggests that several remained unpublished. There may even be other journals or magazines, especially non-musical ones, for which items are yet to be found.

There is some evidence that Sorabji subscribed at one time or another to the publications of the Honest Money Association and the League against All Cruelty to Animals as well as to the journals On Target: A Fortnightly Review of News Highlights, Commonwealth Affairs, and Background Information.

A full bibliography of these writings (other than those published in The New Age, The New English Weekly, The Chesterian, The Sackbut, and The Musical Times, which are duly listed in my Annotated Bibliography of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji’s Collected Published Writings) will be found on a separate page, where a few other journals to which Sorabji sent letters that the editors did not publish are mentioned. Tables showing the number and percentage of articles and letters published in The New Age and The New English Weekly will be found on a separate page.

Musical Journals

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Title (British unless otherwise mentioned)	First Item	Last Item	Letters	Articles
The Musical Standard: A Journal for Musicians, Professional and Amateur {Periodical founded by A. W. Hammond and published between 1862 and 1933. Its first series (1862-1871) has been indexed in detail by RIPM.}	1914	1917	13
Monthly Musical Record {Periodical published between 1871 and 1960. A detailed index is currently in preparation at RIPM.}	1914	1930	2	1
The Musical Times {The oldest music journal published in the United Kingdom; founded in 1844}	1916	1965	61	5
The Music Student {Periodical published in Leeds between 1908 and 1921 by the Home Music Study Union and Music Teachers’ Association, it was edited by Percy Scholes.}	1917			1
The Chesterian {Magazine published by the music published J. & W. Chester between 1915 and 1961; founded by O. M. Kling, it was first edited by G. Jean-Aubry and, between 1947 and 1950, by Rollo H. Myers. Sorabji was listed as a contributor for England in the issue for September-October 1929. A full index is in the list of forthcoming titles at RIPM.}	1919			1
The Sackbut: A Musical Review {Periodical published between 1920 and 1934; at first edited by Philip Heseltine, who was replaced by Ursula Greville after the publisher J. Curwen took it over in 1921. A full index is in the list of forthcoming titles at RIPM.}	1920	1929	2	4
Musical Opinion and Music Trade Review {Magazine published since 1877; a sister magazine entitled The Organ was launched in 1921. Among its editors were Clinton Gray-Fisk was its editor from 1945 to his death in 1961; one of its contributors was Christopher à Becket Williams, who wrote humoristic columns under the pen name “Sinjon Wood”.}	1920	1958	40	4
Musical America {American periodical founded by John C. Freund and published since 1898.}	1921		1
Musical News and Herald {Periodical published between 1891 and 1929}	1924	1925	3	3
Musical Courier: Weekly Review of World’s Music {American periodical published between 1880 and 1961}	1924		1
The Gramophone {Magazine devoted mainly to record reviewing founded in 1923 by the Scottish author Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972). The Gramophone Archive makes it easy to trace Sorabji’s articles and passing mentions of his name.}	1924	1941	15
Music and Letters	1926		1
Milo [Magazine of the Imperial League of Opera] {Magazine founded by Sir Thomas Beecham, with Philip Heseltine as editor; it folded after three issues.}	1929			1
The Rotunda: A Journal of Artistic Organ Building and Musical Progress {Periodical published between 1925 and 1934}	1930			1
The Scottish Musical Journal	1930			1
The Musical Mirror and Fanfare {Monthly periodical published between 1920 and 1932}	1931	1932	2	1
Music Journal (Leeds)	1972		1
Music and Musicians {Monthly periodical published between 1952 and 1987}	1972	1978	2

Non-Musical Journals

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Title (British unless otherwise mentioned)	First Item	Last Item	Letters	Articles
The New Age: A Weekly Record of Christian Culture, Social Service and Literary Life {Magazine published from 1894 to 1938 and edited between 1907 and 1922 by Alfred Richard Orage, under whose editorship it promoted guild socialism. Among its notable contributors were G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), Havelock Ellis (1859-1939), Anthony Ludovici (1882-1971), and Hugh MacDiarmid.}	1915	1934	36	194
Medical Times (General Practitioners’ Alliance, London)	1921			1
The Occult Review: A Magazine Devoted to the Investigation of Supernatural Phenomena and the Study of Psychological Problems {This monthly magazine edited by Ralph Shirley, was published between 1905 and 1951; it offered contributions by such writers as Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) and (Roland) Meredith Starr (1890-1971).}	1923	1943	12
Daily Telegraph {Newspaper founded in 1855}	1924	1971	8
The Catholic Times (now The Universe)	?		1
The New English Weekly: A Review of Public Affairs, Literature and the Arts {Magazine advocating the doctrine of the Social Credit Party, published between 1932 and 1949, edited by Alfred Richard Orage and, from 1934 onwards, by Philip Mairet.}	1932	1949	37	305
The Word: Against the World of Capitalism, Militarism, Fascism and Dictatorship (1938), continued as The Word: To Rouse the People, to Combat War, and to Speed Commonwealth {Periodical published in Glasgow between 1939 and 1950}	1939	1942	2
Catholic Herald {Roman Catholic newspaper established in 1888 by Charles Diamond (1858-1934), who was succeeded by Michael de la Bédoyère (1900-1973; active (1934-62) as editor.}	1943	1962	35
Parliament Christian (Incorporating “Posterity”): The Organ of the People’s Common Law Parliament to amend the deficiencies in present parliamentary and electoral procedure, to ensure that the Will of the people shall prevail, to give security to all and remove the economic and other causes of War, to establish a true Christian social order {Published between 1940 and 1948}	1944	1944	1
Scottish Arts & Letters {Periodical published in Glasgow by William Maclellan between 1994 and 1950}	1944			1
The Social Crediter for Political and Economic Realism (Liverpool) {Periodical published since 1938; was still in existence as The Social Crediter}	1946		1
The Peoples Post (Incorporating “The Bedford Newsletter”): Organ of the British People’s Party {Far-right periodical published in 1939-40 and between 1945-54; at some point edited by John Warburton Beckett (1894-1964), from 1934 onwards a member of Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists and founder, in 1939, of the far-right British People’s Party.}	1947	1953	6	3
Prediction: Magazine for the Occult and Astrology, Incorporating Weekly Horoscope and Fantasy {Probably began publication in 1936}	1947	1979	2
The Royalist: A Magazine of Royalism, Its Destiny, Mission, Purpose and Use (new series) {Published by the Royal Stuart Society; probably began publication in 1951}	1951	1960
The Swanage Times {Newspaper published in a city located near Corfe Castle, where Sorabji lived from the early 1950s onwards.}	1952	1977	72
The Guardian {Newspaper founded in 1821 as The Manchester Guardian}	1953	1953	1
The European: The Journal of Opposition {Periodical edited by Diana Mosley (1910-2003), the wife of Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists}	1955	1958	4	2
Candour: The British Views-Letter (To serve as a link between Britons all over the world in protest against the surrender of their heritage) (South Croydon, Surrey) {Right-wing magazine founded in 1953 and edited by A. K. Chesterton (1896-1973) until his death}	1955	1956	4
The Observer {Sunday newspaper founded in 1791}	1955	1966	2
The Sunday Times {Newspaper founded in 1822. Ernest Newman was its music critic from 1920 until his death.}	1955	1964	3
Health and Life and B.B.A. Monthly (Health & Life World Fellowship) {Periodical founded in 1934 by Edgar Saxon, who had previously run The Healthy Life ?-1930, 1934-36)}	1956	1962	5
Union (Incorporating “Action”): Organ of the Union Movement {Anti-communist weekly newspaper published between 1948 and 1957 by the Sanctuary Press Ltd., which was associated with the British Union of Fascists. Action, which the Sanctuary Press began publishing in 1940, was a mouthpiece for the British Union of Fascists.}	1956	1958	3
Whitby Gazette	1956		1
The Month: A Magazine of Science, Literature and Art {Magazine published between 1864 and 2001, at some point described as “a review of Christian thought and world affairs”.}	1957		1
The Distributist (League for the Restoration of Liberty by the Distribution of Property) {Distributivism is a third-way economic doctrine promoted by G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) and Hillaire Belloc (1870-1953) aiming to apply the principles of Catholic social teaching.}	1958		1
Housewives Today, Supporting the Policy of the British Housewives’ League {The British Housewives’ League is a right-wing, non-party, group found by Irene May Lovelock, née Northover-Smith (1896-1974). The publication, which probably started in 1946, appears to have been edited by a person close to the Social Crediter (see the entry above).}	1958		1
The Spectator {Weekly magazine founded in 1828 and edited, at the time of Sorabji’s contribution, by the Conservative politician Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar (1926-2007).}	1958		1
Westminster Cathedral Chronicle {Periodical published between 1907 and 1934}	1958		1
Encounter: Literature, Arts, Politics {Periodical founded in 1953 by the poet Stephen Spender (1909-95) and Irving Kristol (1920-2009; known as the “godfather of neoconservatism”) and published until 1990; it was published by, or had links with, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, an anti-communist advocacy group founded in 1950.}	1959		1
The Sunday Telegraph {Newspaper founded in 1961}	1962		3
Tomorrow (Absorbed “Sovereignty”): A Journal for the World Citizen of the New Age {Sovereignty began publication in 1946 and described itself as “The Voice of National Britain”.}	1963	1964	2
The Times Literary Supplement {Weekly literary review first published in 1902 and separate from The Times since 1914}	1964		1
Gambit: Edinburgh University Review {Scottish quarterly periodical published between 1958 and 1965}	1965			1
The Listening Post (Bournemouth?)	1966		1
Royalist Viewpoint {Periodical published between 1968 and 1973 by the Royal Stuart Society}	1968	1969	2	1