I TOOK piano lessons when I was ten and can say many years later I have never lived in a home that did not have a piano.
One has pride of place in my Selby council sheltered bungalow. So I cannot be the musical ignoramus Mr Whiting may have imagined me to be (Letters, January 10).
Whether or not I was aware the composers Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett (I refuse to ennoble them) were life-long pacifists is irrelevant.
My valid question (Letters, December 31) was: "Why was Benjamin Britten given preferential treatment when he appeared before a conscientious objectors tribunal in April 1942?"
Mr Whiting did not give an answer.
Ida Mary Goodrick,
Woodlands Avenue, Tadcaster.
Updated: 11:14 Tuesday, January 18, 2005
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