Beethoven's shopping list

A chara, – Sight reading the recently pubLiszt breve and semibreve notes on Beethoven et al has caused us allegro and more than…

A chara, – Sight reading the recently pubLiszt breve and semibreve notes on Beethoven et al has caused us allegro and more than the minim of Faustration and concertnation. – Is mise,

CIARA Nic GABHANN,

Killyberry Road,

Bellaghy, Co Derry.

Sir, – Do you plan to bring this stream of punning to a close, or will it go on Fauré-ver and ever? – Yours, etc,

ADRIAN BRADY,

Menloe Gardens,

Blackrock, Cork.

Sir, – It’s Borodin on the ridiculous. I can’t Copland, it’s Weill. Any Chausson it will Weber stop? – Yours, etc,

PATRICK O’BYRNE,

Shandon Crescent,

Phibsborough, Dublin 7.

Sir, – I note it is high time The Irish Timesgot a Handel on this shopping Liszt of Beethoven and unRavel the story. It just Rattles me and has put me Orff your usual excellent score. I think he spent his money on the Barber instead. The letter-writers are a Mendelssohn and treblesome lot. – Yours, etc,

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ANNE MCCLOSKEY,

Drogheda, Co Louth.

Sir, – Being Franck about Ludwig’s private Liszt, Weill he wouldn’t Telemann a thing nor Bruch any comments from Ireland or any Germann, he probably bought litres of Meyerbeer to assist him Wolf down the schnitzel.

Let’s bid Verdi-well to this Field of speculation. – Yours, etc,

RON BLACK,

Boulevard East,

North Bergen,

New Jersey, US.

Sir, – Arias all mad? Such un-entr’acte-ing, pun-ishing stuff! I Tell you my Head feels like broken Glass. I coda done with some baroque-a this morning! – Yours, etc,

OLIVER MCGRANE,

Marley Avenue,

Rathfarnham, Dublin 16.

Sir, – Apropos of Beethoven’s shopping list, may I suggest that this subject is now ripe for decomposition. Allowing it to continue would be a new Loewe. Please say Gluck before I have to go into Haydn.

Bloch it now or I shall have to get Orff my head on Bellini – then my head would be Sor. – Yours, etc,

FRANK BYRNE,

Cormac Terrace,

Terenure, Dublin 6W.