Beethoven's shopping list

Sir, – Fun to Read Indy beginning but please stop now or Wilbye Nono Moore! – Yours, etc,

Sir, – Fun to Read Indy beginning but please stop now or Wilbye Nono Moore! – Yours, etc,

ED FITZPATRICK,

Hazelbrook Road,

Terenure, Dublin 6W.

Sir, – Beethoven has been an inspiration to us all. Despite splashing out on gourmet feline paté for Debussy and hand-made boots from Schumann, he Berlioz a cent on his credit card (Maestro). – Yours, etc,

FINTAN GIBNEY,

Glasnevin Hill,

Dublin 9.

Sir, – PHew son! Evans above! I’ve been Mullen over A dam quip. You too? – Yours, etc,

JOHN GLEESON,

Lucan Road,

Chapelizod, Dublin 20.

Sir, – I decided to elevate the level of commentary and seek some classical soundings as follows: Bach . . .Wow! Offenbach . . . Wow Wow!! Debussy . . .Miaow!!! – Yours, etc,

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PETER McNAMARA,

Ashbrook, Ennis Road,

Limerick.

Sir, – At the risk of appearing to support trumpeted up charges, I have a trombone to piccolo with whoever this high flutin’ editor is who is keeping this punfinished symphony going. I’ll give a tenor to anyone who chimes in with a way of stopping it before writers start xylophoning it in. It’s a cymbal of all that’s wrong with the country when this glocken-spiel is allowed to, like most shows, go on.

We need the police and the press to be in concert to properly conduct our affairs and reassert our bass-ic human rights. – Yours, etc,

EMMET O’BRIEN,

Fernwood,

Wilton, Cork.

Sir, – Nono! I am sick to Dett of all this musical Rott!

If it keeps Suppé, I will have a glass of Heinichen that might be Abel to Bloch de Greef.

If that doesn’t work, all that’s left is Dupré. – Yours, etc,

NOEL BROWN,

Woodbrook Park,

Templeogue,

Dublin 16.

Sir, – I think Beethoven should have his Chopin delivered and thus avoid having to carry the heavy Purcell all the way home. It would be difficult for him to get a good Holst of it anyway, because he usually takes his little dog along and has to endure everyone saying “Lovely little Puccini?”

All this punning is what one would expect from student Taverner Bartok, but it is such a hoot that I simply had to Arvo Part in it. – Yours, etc,

MARY McGOWAN,

Hillside View,

Killargue, Co Leitrim.