Sir, - I acknowledge Brendan McWilliams's infallibility on matters ineteorological, but take him to task over a recent Weather Eye on the relationship between music and the weather. His mention of "Sibelius's prelude, Tempest" probably refers to the impressively stormy musical prelude of the theatre music Sibelius wrote in 1925 for a run of Shakespeare's play The Tempest, in Stockholm.
In addition, a piece entitled Swan of Tapiola by the same composer does not exist, but appears to be an amalgam of The Swan of Tuonela (1893) and Tapiola (1926). It is the latter composition that contains a tremendous evocation of a storm. - Yours etc,
Croydon Park Avenue,
Marino, Dublin 3.