David Cozy <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >On another list to which I belong someone claimed (perhaps with tongue in >cheek?) that when Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was on "Desert Island Discs" she >chose for the eight discs she could take with her to the island eight of >her own recordings. > >Is this true? I believe it is - at any rate every article about the programme that I've ever seen has claimed that it is. I haven't listened to the programme for ages (Michael Parkinson put me off and I never restarted) but I also recall at least one conductor being allowed to choose not recordings, but scores to take with him. Virginia Knight [log in to unmask] Personal homepage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~ggvhk/virginia.html