Madam, - At the National Concert Hall last Friday night, the programme note quoted avant-garde composer György Ligeti's account of his "micropolyphony" composition technique:
"The complex polyphony of the individual parts is embodied in a harmonic-musical flow, in which the harmonies do not alter suddenly, but merge into each other; one combination of intervals is gradually blurred, and from this cloudiness it is possible to discern a new combination of intervals taking form."
Why did I think of Bertie Ahern? - Yours, etc,
PHYLLIS GAFFNEY, Blackrock, Co Dublin.
Madam, - It is damaging for our republic, and disrespectful to all of us, that our elected head of government is being treated in a defamatory manner by a public tribunal, while no charge of any wrongdoing has been legally brought against him.
That apart, it discourages the best men and women from entering politics. A law preventing any such thing ever happening again should be enacted.forthwith. - Yours, etc,
Dr DESMOND FENNELL, Carton Square, Maynooth, Co Kildare.
Madam, - Listening to our head of government this week (and last) I am reminded of a quotation from the great Groucho Marx: "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them - well, I have others." If one substitutes testimony for principles in the quotation, you have Mr Ahern's approach to the tribunal in a nutshell. - Yours, etc,
JOHN R. BAILEY, Cowper Downs, Rathmines, Dublin 6.