Arturo Llamas: >Hi Dear List members: I would like to know just a little more about >Mussorgsky's "Pictures" I mean how many orchestrations are? Just two? As Steve Schwartz has already pointed out, there are many different orchestrations of "Pictures". And now for something completely different: On EMI Debut [7243 5 69705 2 6] James Crabb & Geir Draugsvoll play their own arrangement of "Pictures" for classical accordion duo. The couplings are "Petrushka" (1947) & "Tango" by Stravinsky. I have, moreover, heard of at least one case of such music being played on a grand organ, but what I at least am really looking forward to is a version for The Regimental Band, Pipes & Drums of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers & Greys) or the equivalent thereof. Geoffrey Gaskell Not, strictly speaking, a purist.