Sir, - As I listened on New Year's Eve to Ray Lynott's review of the musical highlights of 1997 it seemed both the culmination and the climax of all the classical music programmes we enjoyed from the FM3 wavelength during the year. So I hasten, as one does at this time of year, to acknowledge the debt we owe to the producers and presenters of these multiple and varied programmes, that have become, particularly in rurally peripheral counties such as ours, a source of profound enrichment.
While we wait for the Celtic Tiger to give us an edifice that might entice our national orchestras to include us in their touring schedules, may we continue to enjoy the professionalism of our classical music wavelength. - Yours, etc.,
Convent of Mercy, Ballyshannon, Co Donegal.