Martin Anderson posted about the spelling of Weinberg/Vainberg: >I confess having a certain guilt myself, since I once accepted >- without checking them - certain rumours that Weinberg himself >preferred the spelling "Vainberg". I discovered my error >after I had written the texts for half a dozen CDs in the >large series of Olympia in London, and I wanted to change the >spelling, but they refused. In fact I understand this, because >it would have confused their customers if they had changed >it in the middle of a series. Nevertheless the CDs have >unfortunately contributed to the present Babylonic situation. I can sympathize. After all, if we really were to do things correctly, from an English-speaking point of view, we would be looking for Tchaikovsky recordings under the letter C. (Though I do have a Chostakovitch CD, I file it under S.) In Korea I found recordings of Weber stored under the letter B - which turns out to be correct, for Korean. Since Weber's initial W has a "V" sound, and Korean has no "V" sound but habitually encodes it as a "B", that's how the name is written, coming out something close to "Bay-buh". Bach, on the other hand, is usually rendered as "Baha" - as in California, or the Marimba Band. - seb