I HAD to smile when I read Allan Denney's letter 'Music Memories' (March 19).
Allan says: "Rachmaninov didn't survive 45 years and now there are a lot of crumpled separate pages in his music cupboard as page-turning was never his strong point".
I have stood behind Allan many hours at rehearsals turning pages and telling him to count two or four on a note or space as the case may be.
If we required Roll Out The Barrel or Bless 'Em all or anything from the First World War he replied: "I can't play that, it was written before I was born". Rachmaninov eh?
Keep writing Allan, we all love a laugh.
Ivy Eden,
Pinewood Grove,
York.
Updated: 10:57 Tuesday, April 02, 2002
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