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Sir, – I have had a Harty good laugh from your letters

Sir, – I have had a Harty good laugh from your letters. I wonder did Ludwig travel to the Chopin Center by Van or perhaps he took De Bussy? – Yours, etc,

GRAEME GUTHRIE,

Kilmeena, Westport, Co Mayo

Sir, – To be Franck I am browned Orff with all this musical Bolshoi! Our economy is in Verdi deep Strauss and if the Troika Concerto returns, they will tell us we Mozart be so frivolous.

It Beethovens us all to Handel ourselves better and try to Mendelssohn of our economic woes or those guys will be Offenbach. – Yours, etc,

Rev ALPHONSUS CULLINAN,

Rathkeale, Co Limerick.

Sir, – I fear that the composer puns are becoming a little too orchestrated! – Yours, etc,

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JOHN HUGGARD,

Moyfenrath, Enfield, Co Meath.

Sir, – Your chorus-pondents are having a Field day passing the Purcell. I want no Moore of it; it’s Pathétique! How about taking a Fauré down their snobby lieder and taking a chanson ABBA et al? You don’t have to be a Lerner to be Lowe! – Yours, etc,

OLIVER McGRANE,

Marley Avenue,

Rathfarnham, Dublin 16.