Madam, - Kevin Myers writes glowingly about the qualities of the Karl Jenkins choral work The Armed Man, saying that it "speaks to people everywhere" (An Irishman's Diary, March 22nd). True, perhaps, but what does it say to them?
Mr Myers has in recent times ably disposed of The Da Vinci Code as a cynical piece of scissors-and-paste gallimaufry. The Armed Man is the musical equivalent of that baleful book, and is drawn with equal cynicism from a plethora of disparate sources for a surface effect that veils its musical vacuity with a false sense of numinous profundity. - Yours, etc,
HUGO BRADY BROWN,
Stratford on Slaney,
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Co Wicklow.