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Dr Carter's intimation that aspiring to "high end" audio, or indeed cars, seems to be a slightly "passé" exercise (Letters, July). I do own a "high end" hi-fl. And no, I'm not in the hedge fund bracket. I'm a staff nurse in a hospital. I acquired my system by working extra shifts and buying...

It seems somewhat uncharitable ofJolm Haden (Letters, July) to criticise Mahler for overorchestrating the first song in Das Lied von derErde. After all, the composer never had a chance to hear the work in performance, due to his early death. Had he done so, he might well have made some changes....

I work at a radio station in San Francisco, and a few years ago our two engineers scoffed at me for wasting money on "high end" cables for my "high end" audio system. They stated unequivocally that, in double-blind tests, we "golden ears" types had been able to discern no difference between our...

Rawsthornes's First Piano Concerto, which I gave with Sir Malcolm Sargent, as reported in the July issue 'Working with Legends" (page 15)? My previous appearance with

d Gertie Millar: a cover star in more innocent times

simply be dismissed. It is fundamental to the theology of Christian Science that evil needs to be faced and healed on the basis that man, properly perceived through prayer, can be understood to be in a state of present perfection, here and now, as God's image and likeness. So Prokofiev would have...